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community-based services that allow countries with far fewer resources, including Chile, Costa Rica and Portugal, to make gains while the United States founders in the survival stakes.
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When it comes to saving American lives, don’t look to cardiologists, oncologists or even the made-for-TV heroes in the ER. It’s primary-care providers who offer the best hope of reversing the devastating decline in U.S. life expectancy.
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Without patients having access to primary care, minor complaints evolve into chronic illnesses that demand complex long-term treatment plans.
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Addressing basic patient problems in the emergency room costs up to 12 times what it would in a primary-care office, resulting in billions of additional dollars each year.
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The upshot of increasing specialization is that the United States, which spends more per capita on health care than any other country, is devoting a decreasing proportion of those dollars to primary health care, falling from 6.2 percent of total health spending in 2013 to 4.6 percent in 2020.
10:16 PM - Oct 18, 2023
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The 38 member nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development spend a far greater percentage of total health-care dollars on primary care, with one estimate reaching as high as 14 percent in 2016.https://t.co/cXwJ8KTYoC
10:17 PM - Oct 18, 2023
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when coronavirus vaccines were distributed largely through pharmacies and at mass-vaccination centers, family physicians were robbed of the opportunity to give the shots — right there and then — to patients who came in for routine appointments.https://t.co/AyZvKLd3Ku
10:19 PM - Oct 18, 2023
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