Lessons from Steward and the Need for Primary Care Reform in Massachusetts
(May 2024)
Barbra Rabson and Katherine Gergen Barnett have collaborated again, this time on a commentary in Perspectives in Primary Care, published by the Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care. The opinion piece, entitled “Lessons from Steward and the Need for Primary Care Reform in Massachusetts,” traces the roots of the Steward Health Care system collapse to a “dangerous set of health care policies and decisions that got us to this point,” and concludes that “it is only through establishing an adequately financed, robust primary care system that includes strong team-based care that we will have any hope of achieving affordable and equitable health care in Massachusetts.”