Kevin Grumbach

Kevin Grumbach
Nationality	American
Education	UCSF School of Medicine
Occupation(s)	Physician, academic and advocate for single-payer health insurance

Kevin Grumbach is an American physician, academic and advocate for single-payer health insurance. He is the Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]}

Grumbach is an outspoken supporter of universal health care, specifically in the framework of a single-payer, Medicare-for-all system. ^[7] He advocates increased focus and funding for primary care and preventative medicine, especially in underrepresented inner-city and rural areas. Grumbach was involved in creating some of the primary care provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010.

Publications

• Bodenheimer T, Grumbach K. Understanding health policy: A clinical approach. McGraw Hill-Lange, 4th edition, 2004. ISBN   978-1260454260
• K. Grumbach. Fighting hand to hand over physician workforce policy. Health Affairs. Issue: 5. 21: 13–27, 2002. ^[8]
• Grumbach, T. Bodenheimer. A primary care home for Americans: Putting the house in order. Journal of the American Medical Association. Issue: 7. 288: 889–893, 2002. ^[9]
• Saba GW, Wong ST, Schillinger D, Fernandez A, Somkin CP, Wilson CC, Grumbach K. Shared decision making and the experience of partnership in primary care. Annals of Family Medicine. 4: 54–62, 2006. ^[10]
• Grumbach K, Chen E. Effectiveness of University of California postbaccalaureate premedical programs in increasing medical school matriculation for minority and disadvantaged students. Journal of the American Medical Association. 296: 1079–85, 2006. ^[11]
• Grumbach K, Mold JW. A health care cooperative extension service: transforming primary care and community health. Journal of the American Medical Association. 24: 2589–91, 2009. ^[12]
• Bodenheimer T, Grumbach K, Berenson RA. A lifeline for primary care. New England Journal of Medicine. 360: 2693–6, 2009. ^[13]

Sources

1. Hall, Carl T. (2004-06-06). "Taking the High Road / S.F. General's head of family medicine works toward a day when treatment will be fair for all, not just the privileged few "I will never give up being hopeful that one day we will have a health care system I can say I'm proud of as". Carl T. Hall. SFGate. Retrieved 2010-03-25.
2. Olen, Helaine (1991-07-03). "Doctor Supply Grows Faster Than Patients Boom could boost U.S. medical bills by $40 billion, but experts say health care will also improve". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on June 4, 2011. Retrieved 2010-03-25.
3. "INTERVIEW: DR. KEVIN GRUMBACH DISCUSSES AN OVERSUPPLY OF DOCTORS AND FACILITIES IN THE US TO TREAT PREMATURE AND SICK BABIES (668 words)". All Things Considered. May 16, 2002. Retrieved 2010-03-25.
4. DOUGLAS P. SHUIT (1994-07-10). "Single-Payer Plan for Health Care Sparks Furor Coverage: Estimates on the costs differ widely. The big question is: Are people ready to surrender private insurance cards for a state-run system?". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on July 13, 2012. Retrieved 2010-03-25.
5. "Physicians assistants, nurses, family docs more likely to care for underserved". Health & Medicine Week. August 18, 2003. Retrieved 25 March 2010.
6. "Fewer California Doctors Accepting HMO Patients". San Jose Mercury News. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News. December 4, 2002. Retrieved 25 March 2010.
7. Evangelista, Andy (December 2004). "Interview: Kevin Grumbach: Single Minded for Single Payer". UCSF Magazine. Pub.ucsf.edu. Archived from the original on 2010-06-11. Retrieved 2010-03-25.
8. Grumbach, Kevin (2002). "Fighting hand to hand over physician workforce policy". Health Affairs. 21 (5): 13–27. doi:10.1377/hlthaff.21.5.13. ISSN   0278-2715. PMID   12224874.
9. Grumbach, Kevin; Bodenheimer, Thomas (21 August 2002). "A primary care home for Americans: putting the house in order". JAMA. 288 (7): 889–893. doi:10.1001/jama.288.7.889. ISSN   0098-7484. PMID   12186609.
10. Saba, George W.; Wong, Sabrina T.; Schillinger, Dean; Fernandez, Alicia; Somkin, Carol P.; Wilson, Clifford C.; Grumbach, Kevin (2006). "Shared decision making and the experience of partnership in primary care". Annals of Family Medicine. 4 (1): 54–62. doi:10.1370/afm.393. ISSN   1544-1717. PMC   1466999 . PMID   16449397.
11. Grumbach, Kevin; Chen, Eric (6 September 2006). "Effectiveness of University of California postbaccalaureate premedical programs in increasing medical school matriculation for minority and disadvantaged students". JAMA. 296 (9): 1079–1085. doi:10.1001/jama.296.9.1079. ISSN   1538-3598. PMID   16954487.
12. Grumbach, Kevin; Mold, James W. (24 June 2009). "A health care cooperative extension service: transforming primary care and community health". JAMA. 301 (24): 2589–2591. doi:10.1001/jama.2009.923. ISSN   1538-3598. PMID   19549977.
13. Bodenheimer, Thomas; Grumbach, Kevin; Berenson, Robert A. (25 June 2009). "A Lifeline for Primary Care" . New England Journal of Medicine. 360 (26): 2693–2696. doi:10.1056/NEJMp0902909. ISSN   0028-4793. PMID   19553643.

External links

• Official page at UCSF