Primary Care: Can It Solve Employers' Health Care Dilemma?

Employers are beginning to recognize that investing in the primary care foundation of the health care system may help address their problems of rising health care costs and uneven quality. Primary care faces a crisis as a growing number of US medical graduates are avoiding primary care careers becau...

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Published in:Health Affairs 2008-01, Vol.27 (1), p.151-158
Main Authors: Sepulveda, Martin-J, Bodenheimer, Thomas, Grundy, Paul
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cardiovascular disease
Careers
Consumer-driven health plans
Cost control
Cost reduction
Employees
Employers
Health care
Health care expenditures
Health care policy
Health insurance
Internal medicine
Labor shortages
Medicare
Medicine
Mortality
Patients
Per capita
Personal health
Physicians
Primary care
Quality of care
Strategic management
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Summary:Employers are beginning to recognize that investing in the primary care foundation of the health care system may help address their problems of rising health care costs and uneven quality. Primary care faces a crisis as a growing number of US medical graduates are avoiding primary care careers because of relatively low reimbursement and an unsatisfying work life. Yet a strong primary care sector has been associated with reduced health care costs and improved quality. Through the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative and other efforts, some large employers are engaged in initiatives to strengthen primary care. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:0278-2715
1544-5208
DOI:10.1377/hlthaff.27.1.151