I don't mean to point fingers; rather, I wish to highlight the incredi-bly complex and dynamic
relationship among the health care partners and advocates who are trying to solve the …

The adequacy of a nation's supply of physicians has a profound effect on the quality and
cost of medical care received by its citizens. On a somewhat cyclical basis, issues related to …

Iglehart based the observa-tion on his participationin a 12-nation conference on the po-litical
dynamics of physician-manpower policy, held in Lon-don, England, in June 1988. He noted …

The Winter 1986 issue of Health Affairs contained several articles that relate to the" surplus"
of physicians. These articles, especially" Impact of Increasing Physician Supply" by Harold …

Prologue: Increasingly, since 1965, the federal and state governments have become
important financial partners in medical education. Aided by tax-financed subsidies, the …

The Expanding Physician Supply 509 insurance (NHI) was summarily rejected by Congress.
T committee was then appointed to recommend alterna improving the health care of the …

+ Reliable data are the cornerstone of intelligent planning. Therefore, one of the most
striking things to those of us in the Program Planning Section of the Division of Health Affairs …

Discussion of today's issues relating to the supply of and requirements for physicians in this
nation requires some appreciation of policies and events affecting the physician workforce …

In the middle and late 1960s a consensus emerged that there was a physician shortage in
the United States. The Congress responded with enthusiasm and created programs that …

How individual and institutional decisions affect physician specialty distribution in the United
States is a complex, mysterious, and uniquely American process. It is not, as one might …