Poll: 73% of Doctors Across all Disciplines Support Public Health Care Option

This entry was posted by owl and bear staff on Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 at 7:00 am.

May the bogeymen of Socialism be damned. According to a comprehensive new study,

A large majority of doctors say there should be a public option…nearly three-quarters of physicians supported some form of a public option, either alone or in combination with private insurance options.

Additionally, 63 percent of doctors say they favor giving patients a choice that would include both public and private insurance, the same position held by U.S. President Barack Obama and many Democrats. Another 10 percent of doctors say they favor a public option only; they’d like to see a single-payer health care system—something that many of Obama’s Republican opponents have billed as equivalent to Marxist Socialism.

The study was conducted by Dr. Salomeh Keyhani and Dr. Alex Federman, both internists and researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, by mail and by phone, of 2,130 doctors. They surveyed them from June right up to early September. (via NPR)