CHVI Board Member Argues For Importance Of Family Doctors

Bloomberg Businessweek

Health Reform Report June 25, 2009

The Family Doctor: A Remedy for Health-Care Costs?

How making primary-care physicians the center of America’s health-care system could drive down costs

By Catherine Arnst

The primary-care doctor is gaining new respect in Washington. Battles may be breaking out left and right over the various health-care bills emerging from Congress, but reformers on both sides agree that general practitioners should be given a central role in uniting the fragmented U.S. medical system.  This vision has a name: the “patient-centered medical home.”  Read more here.