Survey: Support for national health insurance grows among physicians

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Physicians join citizens in favoring national health care

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.

There were some exceptions. Less than 50 percent of surgical
specialists, radiologists, and anesthesiologists support establishment
of a national health insurance program.

There are an estimated 47 million uninsured in the United States,
according to the latest Census, and another 50 million who are
underinsured.

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