Health care spending, quality, and workforce

There is ample evidence that regional variation in health care spending is related to differences in practice and in the health care workforce that cannot be explained by population differences. These findings in multiple countries, including the US, have withstood multiple attacks on their validity. The latest attempts to discredit them are based on unsophisticated analyses that have themselves been discredited. The links below are to several important research and synthesis articles worth considering for health reform.