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For family medicine workforce, HHS reorganization plan receives a failing grade

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Part of my job was to encourage students' interest in primary care careers and mentor those who chose to enter family medicine. The number of visits to primary care physicians fell by 43% from 2010 to 2021 despite 7.4% The number of visits to primary care physicians fell by 43% from 2010 to 2021 despite 7.4%

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Once again, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is in the line of fire

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Dubbed " the little federal agency that could ," AHRQ has accomplished this feat with a small fraction of the budgets of its higher-profile cousins, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health. spends on health care more wisely or efficiently.