Will Medicare listen to its own advisory committee?
Health care winds up costing more when there’s lots of specialty care, but outcomes aren’t necessarily better. Having more primary-care docs, on the other hand, does tend to improve outcomes, a briefing document prepared for the meeting pointed out. Yet the payment system in this country tends to favor specialists, which is part of the reason fewer young docs are going into primary care.
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