Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Category: Primary Care
Time is Money
American physicians waste significantly more time dealing with red-tape associated with the multiple insurance payers in the United States. Compared to Canada – with its single payer – US physicians spend four times as much. Physicians and administrators in the Continue Reading …
The Primary Care Workforce
“The rediscovery or remaking of primary care is recognized by most analysts as an essential part of a United States health care system that lowers costs, improves quality, and expands access.” The authors of the present Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Continue Reading …
Primary Care’s Impact on Outcomes
Expanding the primary care workforce is viewed as a solution to the health needs of Americans. However, current research suggests that more nuanced metrics are necessary to reveal the ideal physician-to-population ratio. While expanding the primary care physician (PCP) workforce Continue Reading …
Non-Physician Clinicians
With sixteen million more Americans expected to gain health care coverage in the coming years as a result of the Affordable Care Act, access to actual health care providers may become more difficult. This may be especially true for patients Continue Reading …
Health Benefits of Primary Care
A study from 2007 quantifies the health benefits that primary care provides. For every extra primary care physician added over 4 lives can be saved. In the 1940s and 1950s more than 50 percent of all physicians in the United Continue Reading …