Read How Strengthening Primary Care May Be the Key to Fixing U.S. Healthcare System

In an opinion piece, the authors argue that investment in primary care is essential to improving the nation’s healthcare system. Primary care is the first place patients should turn with questions or issues about their health. But this is happening less and less, as decades of underinvestment make it difficult for patients to consult with primary care clinicians who truly know them and their health histories. Read more.

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