2025 Primary Care Scorecard Webinar: How Chronic Underinvestment in Primary Care Is Failing US Patients 

As the nation faces a widespread surge in chronic diseases and more people report not being able to see a clinician who knows them, the third Primary Care Scorecard highlights how systemic disinvestment in US primary care is posing a grave threat to the wellbeing of communities nationwide. The Milbank Memorial Fund and The Physicians Foundation held a webinar on February 18,  2025, on the latest national and state data on key metrics tracking the primary care workforce, financing, training, information technology, and research.  

Following a presentation of the Scorecard findings, Joanne Kenen, journalist-in-residence at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, moderated a discussion on the impact of chronic underinvestment in primary care and potential solutions with the following panelists:  

• Rachel Block, program officer, Milbank Memorial Fund  
• Asaf Bitton, MD, MPH, executive director, Ariadne Labs 
• Ripley Hollister, MD, board member, The Physicians Foundation
• Yalda Jabbarpour, MD, director, Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Primary Care  
• Efrain Talamantes, MD, chief executive officer, AltaMed Health Services  
• Sophia Tripoli, MPH, senior director of health policy, Families USA