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New Report: U.S. Primary Care System Crumbling Amid Historic Disinvestment and Surge in Chronic Diseases

The Physicians Foundation

Misplaced Training Dollars: Lack of funding for community-based training impacting the primary care physician pipeline Hospital-based graduate medical education (GME) receives significantly more funding than community-based programs, a disparity linked to fewer new primary care physicians entering the workforce.

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Debating the pros and cons of Medicare for All

The Health Policy Exchange

primary care physicians accept Medicare, and Medicare enrollment has been associated with improvements in age-specific mortality relative to peer nations. fewer cancer screenings, more conservative prescribing of statins) or declining to cover some beneficial but very expensive therapies. He pointed out that 93% of U.S.