HFMA News – Feb. 3, 2009.
The American College of Physicians has issued its “State of the Nation’s Health Care” report and recommendations for 2009. The report concludes that the state of the nation?s health care is poor and calls upon President Obama and the 111th Congress “to take immediate, sustained and dramatic” steps for reform. Click title to read more…
The report describes two “essential and interrelated goals” for reform: expansion of health insurance coverage and expansion of the primary care physician workforce. Noting that there are not enough primary care physicians to meet the present and future needs of currently insured Americans, the report states that even more primary care physicians will be needed if the new administration and Congress are successful in their goal of expanding coverage to all Americans.
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