Council on Graduate Medical Education Third Report: Improving Access to Health Care Through Physician Workforce Reform; Directions for the 21st Century; October 1992 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Council on Graduate Medical Education Third Report Considering the staggering health care costs that continue to escalate, it is no wonder why health care issues command frontline national attention. Despite all the billions spent on health care and the remarkable increase in expenditures for biomedical research, new technology, and medical care, the United States has a rather dismal health status scorecard due to its failure to provide routine, on going primary care to surprisingly large segments of its population.