Ep94: The Broken Incentives of Primary Care - Past, Present and Future w/ Dr. Troyen Brennan

A conversation with Dr. Troyen Brennan

Our primary care sector is dysfunctional.

Enter Dr. Troyen Brennan: author, adjunct professor at Harvard, former CMO for CVS Health and Aetna, and a national voice on the issues facing our healthcare system.

He explains how the primary care/specialty care balance led America to adopt a profit-driven model, highlighting the repercussions this has had for primary care access across the country.

The current projections are stark, so we need to push for fundamental change.

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We spoke about the contrast between the Affordable Care Act and a single-payer system, the importance of primary care as a foundation for a functional healthcare system, the viability of value-based care models, and the potential pathways to achieve equitable access to primary care in spite of current political and financial challenges.

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