17: Solutions to the Primary Care Problem w/ Stephen Schimpff

Primary care physicians have a time deficit. Rising overhead costs due to the reimbursement system force physicians to take on too many patients.

On top of that, unhealthy lifestyles cause massive health concerns that primary care physicians don’t have the time to address.

So the problem is pretty obvious, but how do we fix it?

How do we give primary care physicians the time required to properly treat patients and positively contribute to a higher quality of life while also mitigating high insurance costs?

In this episode, Dr. Stephen C. Schimpff, author of Fixing the Primary Care Crisis: Reclaiming the patient-physician relationship and returning the healthcare decisions to you and your doctor, discusses how to solve the primary care problem through means such as lowering the physician-to-patient ratio and using health insurance properly.