Boston Globe:  Kennedy op/ed: Planned Parenthood's vital role in health care

Today 62 million Americans struggle to access a primary care physician. Nearly half of them are low income, one-third come from rural communities, and almost 40 percent are minorities. This lack of access permeates our entire health system, where 80 percent of adults who visit emergency rooms in a given year do so because they have no other way to seek primary care. And it has profound public health consequences, since individuals who can’t utilize primary care suffer disproportionately from chr… Read More

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