TY  - JOUR
T1  - REgional variation and the affluence-poverty nexus
AU  - Cooper RA
Y1  - 2009/09/09
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2009.1222
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 1113
EP  - 1114
VL  - 302
IS  - 10
N2  - 
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

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2009.1222
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2009.1222
ER  -