NC Healthcare Coverage Blog » Primary Care http://nchealthcarecoverage.com/blog Health, Wellness, & Healthcare Coverage Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:13:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Physician warns of imminent trouble for primary care http://nchealthcarecoverage.com/blog/2008/12/13/physician-warns-of-imminent-trouble-for-primary-care/ http://nchealthcarecoverage.com/blog/2008/12/13/physician-warns-of-imminent-trouble-for-primary-care/#comments Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:04:29 +0000 Jana http://1-800newhealth.com/blog/?p=328 Pauline W. Chen, M.D. recently wrote about primary care in the New York Times  (12/11). She says that even though primary care is provided in a multitude of locations by a diverse array of professionals, including nurses and physicians’ assistants, family-practice doctors, general internists, gynecologists and pediatricians, primary care physicians are the cornerstone of the medical field.

As the nations foremost doctors, primary care physicians confront everything from chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure. They even address even more critical conditions such as pneumonia, intractable flu and prospective cancerous masses, tumors and lumps.

Unfortunately, for several months now, medical journals have been reporting on the approaching scarcity of primary care physicians. If present conditions continue to be unaddressed, more primary care physicians may diminish the amount of patients they keep or even have to stop working period.

]]> http://nchealthcarecoverage.com/blog/2008/12/13/physician-warns-of-imminent-trouble-for-primary-care/feed/ 0 Physician’s plan for more access and affordability of primary care http://nchealthcarecoverage.com/blog/2008/11/17/physicians-plan-for-more-access-and-affordability-of-primary-care/ http://nchealthcarecoverage.com/blog/2008/11/17/physicians-plan-for-more-access-and-affordability-of-primary-care/#comments Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:27:26 +0000 Jana http://1-800newhealth.com/blog/?p=296 In the Doctor’s Office column of the Wall Street Journal (11,13) Benjamin Brewer M.D. explains that even though people with health coverage with their employers may be currently happy with things as they are, the hurting economy and developing problems in primary care are causing things to get worse. He writes that most people are in accordance that getting everyone healthcare is the right way to go, but the problem is affordability.

Dr. Brewer’s idea is for the government to provide everyone with $365 of their tax money back to use towards primary healthcare. Under this plan the services would be predetermined, but the patient would get to pick the doctor, and the amount would be fixed for a year. He claims that this will cover many things associated with preventive health. With this plan, according to Brewer, a basic amount of service could be provided for all for less than the economic stimulus package.

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