An op-ed in the Boston Globe – “It’s too expensive to be a primary care doctor”:
Under the current care model, doctors are attracted to better-compensated medical specialties so they can deal with rising medical-school debts, inequities in reimbursement, and increasing malpractice insurance costs. Even though patients receive 95 percent of their healthcare outside of a hospital, it’s just too expensive to be a primary-care doctor in America today.
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