RT Journal
A1 Cooper RA
T1 REgional variation and the affluence-poverty nexus
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2009
FD September 9
VO 302
IS 10
SP 1113
OP 1114
DO 10.1001/jama.2009.1222
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2009.1222
AB 
As the nation embarks on health care reform, concerns have been raised that the United States is training too few physicians for the future.1 However, progress in responding has been stalemated by a broadly accepted view that there is unexplained geographic variation in both physician supply and health care spending and that correcting it could obviate the need for more physicians—indeed, that less care is a value that should be rewarded.2- 3