Why underpaying primary care costs the whole system

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Adults with a chronic condition who have a usual source of primary care spend nearly 54% less on health care than adults who do not. Their odds of being hospitalized fall by about 20%. And the United States spends less than 5% of its total health care dollars on the specialty that produces those numbers.

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