Results: MHE Question of the Week About U.S. Primary Care Spending
The results of this week’s poll about primary care spending in the United States.
This week, we asked our readers about whether the U.S. should double its primary care spending.
The results are in and 100% of our audience agreed that the U.S. should double the spending on primary care.
Our results mirror The Commonwealth Fund’s recent survey about primary care spending across nine developed countries. The U.S. fell behind other countries in almost every area.
We want to know what you’re thinking! Every Monday morning the editors of Managed Healthcare Executive are posing a question to our readers about a timely issue in U.S. healthcare. Answers will be published every Friday.
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