Richard (Buz) Cooper, MD is a Professor of Medicine and Senior Fellow in the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. During almost 50 years as a physician, he has practiced hematology and oncology, conducted experimental hematology research, directed a cancer center (at Penn), been dean of a medical school (at the Medical College of Wisconsin) and led a health policy institute (also at Wisconsin). Over the past 15 years, his efforts have been focused on critical issues in health care policy related principally to projecting the demand for physicians and other health care professionals and understanding the future dimensions of the health care system.
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Recent Entries
- Poverty, Wealth and Health Care Utilization: A Geographic Assessment
- Health Care Spending and GDP in One Chart
- Another Model Medical Home, but the Poor Need Not Apply
- The Untold Story on PBS – The High Health Care Costs of Poverty
- The Truth About Variation – A Sea Change
- THE HILLY TERRAIN OF HEALTH CARE
- Readmissions and “Ill-incentivized Health Care”
- Wall Street Protests, Income Inequality and the High Costs of Health Care
- Finally from Dartmouth: More is More
- Reassessing Dartmouth’s Geographic Variation
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Links
- Action for Better Healthcare.com: Readmission legislation will harm hospitals that care for the poor
- BetterHealth.com: Geographic Variation & Healthcare Reform
- Diversity and Consistency–The Challenge Of Maintaining Quality in a Multidisciplinary Workforce
- Interview on the Medinnovation Blog
- It’s Time to Address the Problem of Physician Shortages – Graduate Medical Education is the Key
- More Is More And Less Is Less: The Case Of Mississippi
- Myth and Reality Underlying the Needed Expansion of Graduate Medical Education
- Senate HELP Committee Testimony
- States With More Health Care Spending Have Better-Quality Health Care: Lessons About Medicare
- States With More Physicians Have Better-Quality Health Care
- Weighing the Evidence for Expanding Physician Supply
