Milbank Memorial Fund: Primary Care, Not Palaces
A new Milbank Memorial Fund-supported study from the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative and the Robert Graham Center estimates 5.6% of health care expenses in the US goes to primary care. This is dwarfed by shares absorbed by hospitals, other physicians, and pharmaceuticals-and by the roughly 14% of total health care spending OECD countries devote to primary care.