Which Way, L.A.?
The Doctor Glut
The federal government is paying teaching hospitals to train fewer doctors. Do we really have too many? What about the millions of uninsured?
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readChris Jennings: Deputy assistant to the President for Health Policy Development.Joseph Newhouse: John D. McCarthur professor of health policy and management at Harvard University; chair of the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission which makes recommendations to Congress about Medicare, including on the issue of payments to teaching hospitals. Noe Paramo: Education director, Rural Health Advocacy Institute in Modesto. Andrew Bindman: Associate professor of medicine and health policy at UCSF Medical School; co-author of a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine titled "The Role of Black and Hispanic Physicians in Providing Health Care for Underserved Populations Michael Karpf: Director of the UCLA Medical Center.Dan Wohlgelernter, MD: Cardiologist in a Santa Monica practice group called Cardiology Consultants; former member of the UCLA Medical School faculty. Lisa Kalustian: Press Deputy to Governor Pete Wilson. Rick Wartzman: Editor of the California section of the Wall Street Journal.
topic: Health plan for children of working poor
