{"id":165,"date":"2012-10-30T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T20:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=165"},"modified":"2012-10-30T16:37:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T20:37:00","slug":"plos-one-healthcare-reform-and-the-next-generation-united-states-medical-student-attitudes-toward-the-patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"PLOS ONE: Healthcare Reform and the Next Generation: United States Medical Student Attitudes toward the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0023557\">PLOS ONE: Healthcare Reform and the Next Generation: United States Medical Student Attitudes toward the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Of  medical students surveyed, 94.8% agreed that the existing United States  healthcare system needs to be reformed, 31.4% believed the PPACA will  improve healthcare quality, while 20.9% disagreed and almost half  (47.7%) were unsure if quality will be improved. Two thirds (67.6%)  believed that the PPACA will increase access, 6.5% disagreed and the  remaining 25.9% were unsure. With regard to containing healthcare costs,  45.4% of participants indicated that they are unsure if the provisions  of the PPACA will do so. Overall, 80.1% of respondents indicated that  they support the PPACA, and 78.3% also indicated that they did not feel  that reform efforts had gone far enough. A majority of respondents  (58.8%) opposed repeal of the PPACA, while 15.0% supported repeal, and  26.1% were undecided.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Conclusion<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The  overwhelming majority of medical students recognized healthcare reform  is needed and expressed support for the PPACA but echoed concerns about  whether it will address issues of quality or cost containment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PLOS ONE: Healthcare Reform and the Next Generation: United States Medical Student Attitudes toward the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Of medical students surveyed, 94.8% agreed that the existing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=165\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;PLOS ONE: Healthcare Reform and the Next Generation: United States Medical Student Attitudes toward the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physician-surveys","category-ppaca"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}