The family practice line helps educate and produce family physicians. Because having adequate numbers of family physicians will lead to lower health care costs for everyone.
Family physicians provide high quality, cost effective health care.
Family physicians emphasize disease prevention and health maintenance in addition to treating illness. High health care costs are frequently attributed to too many sub-specialists in the physician workforce. During the last budget cycle, the family practice line had its most significant growth in ten years. Since its inception in the late 1970's, the family practice line has proven to be a good value for the state because it ensures that the state's medical schools have the resources needed to maintain departments of family medicine. Continued growth is needed because the need for family physicians in Ohio also continues to grow.