Charlie Baker: “If 70% of all physicians are specialists and only 30% are in primary care “” and some 40% of what goes on in an ER belongs in the office a primary care provider, something’s wrong.”
Some of the major players are learning that buffing up the country’s primary care physician numbers can go a long way to solving many of our health care delivery problems.
Hopefully politicians will get this soon as well. The public debate continues to focus on the uninsured – simply because this an easy, politically friendly narrative.
If we can shift attention to the lack of primary care physicians, it will be easier for politicians to act on this significantly more pressing need.
