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Primary care for all Americans

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" The Gilded Age of Medicine is Here ," announced the title of a recent New Yorker article about the tactics of private equity firms that provide infusions of cash to struggling hospitals in order to extract hundreds of millions of dollars in profits by slashing costs to the bone and endangering the health of patients.

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"Sludge audits" identify obstacles to completing colorectal cancer screening

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Calling to schedule the next available appointment and taking time off work. Travel to the doctor’s office. A 2022 article in the Harvard Business Review introduced the term sludge to describe “these types of situations in which the design of a specific process consistently impedes individuals from completing their intended action.”