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This graphic was a surprise—-for one thing, it shows how much of the U.S. has geographic areas whose costs for services are below average. Indeed, much of the country shows as average or below.

As the show-down between the Congress and opponents of a 10.1% pay cut to physicians who provide care for Medicare patients, you may find this excellent chart helpful.

Move your mouse and you will find a wealth of detail. There are reasons for geographical cost differences, some of them real and some of them appear to be the result of what the market will bear.

You will learn a lot with what will take only a few minutes. You will be, and feel, far better informed on a hot, hot issue which isn’t going away.
The New York Times

Source: The New York Times and the Dartmouth Atlas Group, June 11, 2008