Kaylee Wells

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But Art Wheaton, director of labor studies at Cornell University, says now that this possible tariff is in the news, there's a pretty good chance President Trump will make it happen.

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If you're an adult with a chronic disease, having a go-to primary care doctor cuts your health care costs in half.

The report from the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Primary Care says it also lowers your chance of getting hospitalized by 20 percent.

And then for children with chronic disease, the benefits were even more striking.

Dr. Morgan McDonald is the National Director for Population Health at Milbank Memorial Fund, which co-funded the report.

She said one in three adults in the U.S.

can't get primary care.

Lack of insurance can be a significant barrier.

Cost can be a barrier.

And the other barrier?

Only 5% of U.S.

health care spending goes toward primary care.

Health care finance professor emeritus J.B.

Silvers at Case Western Reserve University says med school pushes students toward picking specialties, rheumatology, dermatology, oncology, that kind of thing.

That's why the report says the answer is increasing spending on the primary care workforce.