Planned Medicare cuts weigh on primary care

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Wall Street Journal (subscription required), December 11, 2007

While presidential candidates are beating each other up about their plans for the uninsured, they've failed to notice that access to primary care for millions of people enrolled in Medicare is in peril, says Benjamin Brewer, MD.

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