Health Affairs, 28, no. 1 (2009): w87-w88 (Published online 4 December 2008) doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.28.1.w87 © 2009 by Project HOPE	New Online   Senate Health Reform Bill   Rewarding Providers   Public Option Policy Brief   Health Reform & Abortion   Delivery System Reform

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HEALTH AFFAIRS is pleased to publish this package of Web Exclusives, examining the connections among the supply of doctors, the composition of the physician workforce, the quality of health care, and health spending. It is critically important to establish just what these connections are. The United States faces a number of major and potentially competing challenges: improving the health status of the population; expanding health coverage and access to care; coping with a future of aging and chronically ill individuals; and constraining the growth of health spending. Policymakers clearly need to understand how to get the biggest bang for . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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