Why primary care is collapsing and how to actually fix it

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Primary care is quietly collapsing. The share of doctors in primary care just slipped from a third to a quarter, and it tracks almost exactly with the years most doctors became corporate employees stuck on a referral treadmill. Ken Terry, a health care journalist and author of Beyond Medicare for All, argues the fix is not Medicare for All but a model that frees primary care doctors into competing groups they own, while insurers keep a narrower role.

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