04-03-2011, 03:38 AM
More money per person is spent in the United States than any other nation when it comes to health care, yet we have poor health outcomes when compared to other industrialized nations. US spent 16% of its GDP on health care in 2007 but ranked 28th in Infant Mortality. Study after study, in particular the work of Dr. Barbara Starfield has shown that the Health Care Systems that have better health outcomes at a lower cost have more than 50% of their physicians in the Primary Care force. In the US, primary care physicians account less than 30% and Family Physicians equate only 12%. Education and support of our Family Physicians directly impacts the health of the nation, particularly in rural areas where access to good healthcare is limited.
Investment in Primary Care not only improves the health of the nation but also increase the wealth of the nation as each new primary care physician generates close to $1, 000000 of revenue to the local economy. This is especially important, since primary care physicians more than any another physicians tend to work in rural areas where the rural clinics are one of the biggest if not THE biggest income generators.
Learn more... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwHygEl2sGw