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Incentives Create Trajectories, Corporate Model

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Incentives Create Trajectories, Corporate Model or, "let's start foregrounding the gleichschaltung" Chris Bray Manipulate paper. A new  research article  examines the aggressive growth of CPCPs — corporate-owned primary care practices. But one of the authors brings all the background up front in a Twitter thread that starts here: Soleil Shah @Soleil_Shah Our new paper in @NEJM examines the massive investments into primary care by Amazon, CVS, Humana, and other corporations—what’s driving this trend and what are its implications for patients, clinicians, & trainees? 1/x 4:17 PM ∙ Jan 7, 2023 912 Likes 185 Retweets   Big corporations like CVS and Amazon are moving into the primary care business, and so are venture capital firms. Part of the incentive structure driving that move is vertical integration, and just try to figure out where you’ll pick up all your prescriptions when your primary care doctor is a CVS employee (who seems really committed to giving you new pres...