“The California Academy of Family Physicians supports comprehensive health care reform, universal health coverage, a move to the patient-centered medical home as the model for delivering and coordinating care, and an end to the primary care physician shortage,” Dr. Luther said....if you are in family practice in California...good resource page and there's also a link to Facebook where the group is also represented....BD
The report, Strong Medicine: Family Medicine’s Fix for California’s Fractured Health Care System, brings together current academic research on the problems facing the most populous state in the nation and outlines solutions proposed by experts nationwide.
“Although California spends more than $170 billion each year on health
care, the health status of our residents ranks only 23rd among U.S. states,” said Jeffrey Luther, MD, president of the 7,000-member California Academy of Family Physicians. “This is shameful in our state, the eighth largest economy in the world. Economically we’re larger than most countries – surely we can deliver higher quality health care to the people of California.”
Current statistics on health care disparities by race, rates of uninsured residents, the frayed ‘safety net’ that leaves people living in poverty without adequate access to health care, escalating health care costs, the promising model of the patient-centered medical home, and other topics underscore the urgent need for health care reform and universal coverage in California.
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