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Physicians and the public health option

By Jeff Yates

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The New England Journal of Medicine recently published an interesting study on physician views concerning the public health option. Here's a selection from the introduction portion of the article:

 In the past few months, a key point of contention in the health care reform debate has been whether a public health insurance option should be included in the final legislation. Although polls have shown that 52 to 69% of Americans support such an option,1 the views of physicians are unclear. Physicians are critical stakeholders in health care reform and have been influential in shaping health policy throughout the history of organizedmedicine in the United States.2

The voices of physicians in the current debate have emanated almost exclusively from national physicians? groups and societies. Like any special-interest group, these organizations claim to represent their members (and often nonmembers as well). The result is a well-established understanding of the interests of physicians? societies but little, if any, understanding of views among physicians in general. Faced with this absence ofempirical data, we conducted a national survey of physicians to inform federal policymakers about physicians? views of proposed expansions of health care coverage.

and a graphic of the results:

Physician_graphic1

[hat tip to Discourse.net Blog]

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on September 19, 2009 (boomark / email).

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