Garnet
15 Sep 2009, 12:31 AM
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-HealthcareReform/idUSTRE58D67120090914
When given a three-way choice among private plans that use tax credits or subsidies to help the poor buy private insurance; a new public health insurance plan such as Medicare; or a mix of the two; 63 percent of doctors supported a mix, 27 percent said they only wanted private options, and just 10 percent said they exclusively wanted public options.
The survey of 2,130 U.S. doctors, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, also found that more 55 percent, regardless of their medical specialty, would favor expanding Medicare so it covered people aged 55 and older.
I saw this study raised on FRDB. A point made in the article quoted in the OP over there is that if you take the 63 percent who support a mix and the 10 percent that support a public only option that makes 73% of those doctors surveyed that support a public option.
ETA: I found the last sentence of the article unsurprising:
Family doctors were more likely to favor reform than surgeons and other specialists.
When given a three-way choice among private plans that use tax credits or subsidies to help the poor buy private insurance; a new public health insurance plan such as Medicare; or a mix of the two; 63 percent of doctors supported a mix, 27 percent said they only wanted private options, and just 10 percent said they exclusively wanted public options.
The survey of 2,130 U.S. doctors, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, also found that more 55 percent, regardless of their medical specialty, would favor expanding Medicare so it covered people aged 55 and older.
I saw this study raised on FRDB. A point made in the article quoted in the OP over there is that if you take the 63 percent who support a mix and the 10 percent that support a public only option that makes 73% of those doctors surveyed that support a public option.
ETA: I found the last sentence of the article unsurprising:
Family doctors were more likely to favor reform than surgeons and other specialists.