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...History teaches us that many of the most enlightened social protection measures have been enacted at times of economic or political crises,” Frenk said. “If well crafted, health reform can be a key ingredient in economic recovery...
Many audience members supported Frenk’s remarks on the need for global health reform...
...Wertheim College is an idea that couldn't have come at a better time - not just for low-income communities in South Florida and elsewhere, but also for the broader cause of health-care reform. The U.S.'s chronic shortage of primary-care doctors has become "catastrophic," says Dr. Joseph Stubbs, president of the Philadelphia-based American College of Physicians, one of the nation's largest medical organizations. "If things continue as they are," says Stubbs, "by 2025, the U.S. will be 45,000 primary-care physicians short." That dearth of first-level preventive care will push even more...
...pocketing $150,000. Over the summer, President Obama announced the Public Service Student Loan Forgiveness Program, which erases big chunks of debt for medical students who do 10 years of primary-care work at clinics in communities like those the FIU students are serving. And Congress has health-care-reform companion bills pending that would boost the number of primary-care doctors by some 15,000 by subsidizing their training. Experts also insist that ways have to be found to make family-physician salaries and Medicare reimbursements more competitive...
...Those enticements are especially critical given that health-care reform could bring an additional 46 million Americans into the ranks of the insured - meaning 46 million more people who will need primary care. Without enough family doctors to serve them, "they'll be like people who've been given a new car but can't start the ignition," says Stubbs...