AcademyHealth: How hard is it to find a primary care doctor?

A new study in JAMA Internal Medicine examines variation in access to primary care by insurance status (Medicaid, private, and uninsured). An Urban Institute study by some of the same authors offers complementary evidence. For a more complete view of “access,” both are worth understanding. I summarize the JAMA IM study in an AcademyHealth post today, and will comment on the Urban Institute one later this week.

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Austin Frakt

Austin Frakt, PhD, is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist. His day job is Associate Director of the Partnered Evidence-based Policy Resource Center at the Boston VA Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. He is also a Professor with the Department of Health Law, Policy and Management at the Boston University’s School of Public Health, a Principal Research Scientist with the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Health Services Research.

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