Even the ivory tower gets it

An editorial in JAMA suggests that the RVU system is killing primary care. Something that has been repeated every day in the medical blogosphere:

The ending commentary was a shot across the bow of the single payer fanatics.

You can’t have primary care for all if you don’t have primary care docs for all. It is an impossible feat.

The same government that gives us the ridiculous RVU system with all its ingrained faults, creating the inequalities among physicians and causing us the death of primary care.

retired doc with more.

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3. Primary care revolution
4. How price controls in medicine have worked out
5. Internal medicine versus the ER
6. When was the last time you actually saw a doctor?
7. Disband the RUC

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