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

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While I'm grateful for subspecialists who alleviate pain, rescue patients who are unable to breathe on their own, manage complicated fractures, and replace worn-out hips and knees, the gap between the number of family doctors we need and the number we have keeps getting wider. This is where the federal government must step up.

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

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Now the Department of Government Efficiency is trying again, threatening 90% staff reductions that would decimate the agency. Nonetheless, its work has often been politically unpopular and unheralded outside of a small community of health services researchers and patient advocates. spends on health care more wisely or efficiently.