Better health care benefits both patients and physicians. However, more efforts are needed to achieve this goal, according to a speaker at the ACP Internal Medicine Meeting.
Robert Doherty, the society’s senior vice president of government affairs and public policy, said an ACP survey revealed many problems with the United States health care system, including that it costs too much, leaves too many without coverage, undervalues primary care and undermines the physician-patient relationship.
“The U.S. health system is failing many Americans,” Doherty said. “America, it's