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
- The Wizard of Orszag on Readmissions
- Intersecting Fault Lines – Health Care, Finance and Poverty
- The Road Back from Dartmouth Deception Will Be Difficult, but We Must Now Begin
- Dartmouth vs. Dartmouth
- Dartmouth Atlas Data Used to Justify Health Savings Can Be Shaky (NYT)
- Berwick’s Rules, Wennberg’s Windfall and the Quality-Industrial Complex
- Another Failed Medical Home, And Once More, the Poor Are Left Out in the Cold
- Ontario’s Medical Home: The Poor Left Out in the Cold Again
- NY Times: “A Call to Action”
- Group Health’s Medical Home: Leaving the Poor Out in the Cold
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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
