Primary Care Needs Reform

Primary care physicians are crying out for reform, as they struggle to work in a health care system that encourages them to spend as little time with each patient as possible and makes it difficult for them to be fully reimbursed for those rushed office visits. Fewer and fewer medical students choose to become primary care physicians, while more and more primary care physicians are becoming disgusted with the current situation and leaving the field. According to the American College of Physicians, changing physician reimbursement rates and establishing quality and efficiency standard of care would help end the primary care crisis.