Survey: Majority of Physicians Support Not For Profit Health Care

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We can stop taking everyone else’s word for how U.S. physicians feel about national health insurance. When surveyed, 59 percent say they now support national health insurance, a 10 percent increase in support from five years ago.

According to a survey undertaken last year by Indiana University School of Medicine and published in the April 1 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine, support for national health insurance is strongest among psychiatrists (83 percent), pediatric sub-specialists (71 percent), emergency medicine physicians (69 percent), general pediatricians (65 percent), general internists (64 percent) and family physicians (60 percent).

Support from general surgeons has doubled since 2002, with 55 percent now backing national health insurance.

“Across the board, more physicians feel that our fragmented and for-profit insurance system is obstructing good patient care, and a majority now support national insurance as the remedy,” said study co-author Ronald T. Ackermann, associate director of the Center for Health Policy and Professionalism Research at Indiana University’s School of Medicine....

A Medicare-for-all type system was proposed by Physicians for a National Health program, a national organization with 15,000 members, in 2003, and published in JAMA. It was the impetus for the proposed National Health Insurance Act (HR 676) introduced in 2006 by U.S. Representatives John Conyers (D-Michigan) and Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio).
http://www.opednews.com/articles/life_a_kathlyn__080421_survey_3a_support_for_.htm

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