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Adam Gaffney, MD, MPH, is Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, a pulmonologist and critical care physician at the Cambridge Health Alliance, and past president of Physicians for a National Health Program. He tweets @awgaffney.
To meet the challenge of enduring spread in the years to come, we must prioritize primary care and community health over the profit-driven status quo.
Atul Gawande helped popularize the idea that health care spending is high because we use too much medicine. He was wrong: it’s the prices, and who pays them.
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