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We must make primary care a more manageable business by changing the way we pay for it.
It will take more than just financial reform to make primary care attractive to a group of very intelligent and highly motivated individuals.
Without payment reform and reducing student debt to make primary care more financially viable, medical students will continue pursuing lucrative specialties.
So policy can play a role to do things to help make primary care attractive, like ensuring good pay for primary care physicians, since we've often had skewed payment methodologies that favor specialties.
Hence, primary care physicians see 25+ patients per day as quickly as possible, while insurance, Medicare and Medicaid mandate an incredible level of administrative work in order to make primary care physicians justify payment for each transaction.
"We set out to make primary care accessible and affordable for everyone, to address a crisis in America that has led to nearly one-fifth of the population not having a relationship with primary care," said Robbie Cape, CEO and co-founder of 98point6, in a statement.
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This is not the first proposal to recommend making primary care training more accessible.
The solution to our health problems relies not only in the much-expected health care reform but also in making primary care a very appealing option.
The goals were twofold: to help patients become healthier by making primary care more accessible, and to cut down on unnecessary, and expensive, emergency-room visits.
By making primary care more accessible (whether it's from Walmart or one of the low cost DPC providers), we'd take the lessons learned from IBM's study of their $2 billion annual healthcare spend.
During the course of their careers, primary care physicians earn around $3 million less than their colleagues in specialty fields, which makes primary care a less appealing path for many medical students.
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