Doctors Prefer Public Option 63% to 27% – Even 59% of Southern Docs Want Govt. Plan
A new poll from the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) finds that a significant majority of physicians nationwide favor including a government-provided medical insurance option, as proposed by Pres. Obama and congressional Democrats:
A total of 62.9 percent of physicians who participated in the survey … said they favored a public option, or government insurance plan, against 27.3 percent backing a private system alone.
Another 9.6 percent favored a completely government-owned health care coverage system.
“It’s clear that the majority of US physicians support both public and private options to expand coverage,” NEJM said, noting that between 52 and 69 percent of Americans favor a supplemental public option.
The survey found that even 58.9 percent of Southern doctors want reforms to include a public option.
The poll also found that 58.3 percent of doctors are in favor of expanding Medicare to people as young as 55 years old.
