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二、 Crippling health care bills, long emergency-room waits and the inability to find a primary care physician just scratch the surface of the problems that patients face daily. 问题重重的医疗保障费用，急诊室前排起的长队，以及无法找到初级护理医生，这些仅是每天要面对的问题中的一部分。 Primary care should be the backbone of any health care system. 初级护理应该是所有医疗保障体系的支柱。 Countries with appropriate primary care resources score highly when it comes to health outcomes and cost. 有充足的初级护理资源的国家在健康水平和费用支出上都获得甚佳的评价。 The U.S. takes the opposite approach by emphasizing the specialist rather than the primary care physician. 美国却反其道而行之，注重专科医生而非初级护理医生。 A recent study analyzed the providers who treat Medicare beneficiaries(老年医保受惠人). 最近一项研究分析了负责治疗老年医保受惠人的医生。 The startling finding was that the average Medicare patient saw a total of seven doctorstwo primary care physicians and five specialistsin a given year. Contrary to popular belief, the more physicians taking care of you dont guarantee better care. | 
