Sunday, October 26, 2008

Universal Health Care Doomed to Fail Without Primary Care

Senator Obama wants to provide universal health care coverage to all Americans, but the physician shortage will stop it dead in it’s tracts. With less than 2% of medical students choosing primary care medicine as a specialty and the aging physician population that is ready to retire within the next five years, we have a crisis looming.It is the primary care specialties who manage 80% of all