Most doctors now favor national health insurance
A majority of doctors support the idea of a national health insurance, according to a new report in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
In total, 59 percent of 2193 physicians interviewed by researchers at the University of Indiana, “she says now,” the government to support national legislation on health insurance. ”
The amount of aid has been higher among psychiatrists (83 percent), paediatricians (71 percent), and emergency physicians (69 percent). The majority of general surgeons as such a program to renew to all reports, including the estimated 47 million Americans have any.
“Across the board, more doctors are of the opinion that our fragmented and for-profit, the system is an obstacle good patient care,” said co-author of the study, Ronald T. Ackermann, Associate Director of the Center for Health Policy and Research at the Indiana professionalism of the medical school.
The survey also asked the doctors on the state level, efforts, as in Pennsylvania, access to health insurance. It was found that 55 percent of respondents supported such measures, even if they have expressed a preference for a national approach.
In December, the American College of Physicians, doctors, the second “to the organization of the nation, in favor of a single payer system of health insurance for the first time.
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