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By Robert Bowman M.D.

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Speak Your Piece: Killing Primary Care
11/04/2011

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?

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Preparing for Health Care Cuts
08/23/2011

On January 1, federal health care rates for doctors will be cut 29.5% unless Congress acts. The cuts will be harder on primary care physicians — and that means they will cut more deeply in rural communities, which are more dependent on primary care providers.

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Speak Your Piece: Measuring Rural Healthcare
07/11/2011

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......

Health
Health Care Begins in Human Bonds
03/02/2010

klimt tree of lifeDr. Robert Bowman explains how a community solved the problems of physician recruitment and retention by seeing that the two problems are really one: how to build quality relationships.

Education | Health
A Pittance Can Change Health Care
07/21/2009

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

Education | Health
Doctors Are where Patients Aren't
02/12/2009

bowman increase in elderly

Dr. Robert Bowman, M.D. describes the broken design of American health care: physicians are concentrated in locations and careers that fail to serve the majority and the most urgent medical needs.

Daily Yonder | Keep It Rural
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