Primary care was supposed to be the centerpiece of President Obama's health care reform bill — the way the country was to reduce the amount it spends on medicine. So why is his administration cutting primary health care allotments by 27 percent?

Rural health care providers are paid less to provide treatment to a population that is more likely to be poor than those in the cities. Now medical researchers are saying rural hospitals don't provide the same quality of care as those city institutions that have more money and richer patients. Well......

What's the cheapest route to health care reform? Staffing "continuity care homes" in places now medically underserved, writes Dr. Robert Bowman.