Primary Care
Focus on Health Care, not Sick Care
By: William S. Queale, MD Let’s be honest. We do not have a health care system in this country. We have a $3.5 trillion sick care system, in which companies make massive profits providing goods and services to people who are ill. While we can discuss ways to reduce the cost of medical care, I…
Read MoreThe Primary Need: If more doctors don’t sign up to be basic care providers, health reform can’t succeed.
Written By: William S. Queale and Hope Keller With all the plans to reform health care now careening around Washington, it’s surprising that none addresses a remedy that is key to any genuine overhaul: the resuscitation of primary care medicine. Primary care today is in a state of profound disarray, with physicians leaving the profession…
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