Primary care is too important to fail

David Meyers and Carolyn Clancy from the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research have a nice editorial in the Annals of Internal Medicine - Primary Care: Too Important to Fail.

This piece makes short work of the case for effective primary care.  Anyone asking "what's the business case for supporting primary care?" would be well advised to read this and the supporting literature.
Anyone asking primary care to prove its worth before anything is done to reverse the imminent demise of this critical foundation of health care is well advised to read the article.
L. Gordon Moore MD
Seattle WA