A report commissioned by The Physicians Foundation, a national healthcare organization that represents the interests of physicians, raises new questions about the role of socioeconomic determinants as they relate to access, quality, and cost of medical care in the United States.  The report, prepared by a team of noted physicians and economists headed by Richard “Buz” Cooper, MD, Professor of Medicine and Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, was sent to the President and Congress in order to contribute to the national health care debate.

View recent coverage of the physician shortage CNN:
Shortage of doctors in the US, 09/10/2009
Ines Ferre reports on the shortage of primary care doctors and the problems it could cause in a health-care crisis.http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2009/09/10/ldt.ferre.gp.shortage.cnn?iref=videosearch