- Medicine and Public Issues
Weighing the Evidence for Expanding Physician Supply

Figure 1. Data on changes in GDP are from the Bureau of Economic Analysis . Data on changes in private health expenditures
are from Altman and Levitt and Strunk and Ginsberg . This analysis was previously described by Cooper and Getzen .
Annual percentage changes in private health expenditures and in gross domestic product (GDP) 4 years previously.(29)(27)(30,
31)(28)
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Ann Intern Med
November 2, 2004
vol. 141
no. 9
705-714