What Gets in the Way of Good Primary Care for Low-Income Patients?
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As the frontline of our health care system, primary care is central to keeping people healthy. But primary care often falls short in the communities that stand to benefit from it the most.
In the first post in our series “Listening to Primary Care Physicians for Low-Income Patients,” the Commonwealth Fund’s Corinne Lewis and Melinda Abrams draw on focus-group findings to describe the obstacles primary care physicians face in serving their low-income patients: insufficient time, administrative hassles, and low reimbursement rates, among others. While all primary care doctors share some of these challenges, the issues are compounded for patients who need social services and have limited resources.
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