I spoke this week with Shawn Martin, the CEO of the American Academy of Family Physicians, which represents about 180,000 primary care physicians. In a week when the Trump administration decided against spending contingency money to keep food stamp money flowing (a federal judge late Friday ruled it must — we’ll see how that goes), I thought it was a good time to revisit the issue of primary care.
The Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is actively promoting vaccine hesitancy. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is unraveling under constant assault from the Trump administration. At a time of constant chaos and uncertainty, is there any hope for improving this crucial component of the health care system, which is woefully underfunded in the U.S. compared to other industrialized nations?
Give a listen. And while you do, you might want to check out the relaunched Health Wonk Review, which will appear every two weeks. You can find this week’s edition on Joe Paduda’s “Managed Care Matters” substack:
