Spending on primary care vs. other US health care expenditures

What The Study Did:

National health care survey data were used to assess the amount of money spent on primary care relative to other areas of health care spending in the U.S. from 2002 to 2016.

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Andrew W. Bazemore, M.D., M.P.H., of the American Board of Family Medicine in Washington, is the corresponding author.

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