{"id":500,"date":"2009-10-12T21:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T01:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=500"},"modified":"2009-10-12T21:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T01:37:00","slug":"nejm-doctors-on-coverage-physicians-views-on-a-new-public-insurance-option-and-medicare-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=500","title":{"rendered":"NEJM — Doctors on Coverage — Physicians’ Views on a New Public Insurance Option and Medicare Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEJM — Doctors on Coverage — Physicians’ Views on a New Public Insurance Option and Medicare Expansion<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“Overall, a majority of physicians (62.9%) supported public and private options. Only 27.3% supported offering private options only.”<\/p>\n

I realized I didn’t have this posted yet! The 3\/4 of physicians ties in nicely with my estimate that physicians groups representing 3\/4 of physicians also support health care reform in general and HR 3200 in particular.<\/em>
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The <\/em>companion article is instructive<\/em><\/a>, too.<\/em><\/p>\n

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a large majority of respondents (78%) agreed that physicians have a professional obligation to address societal health policy issues. Majorities also agreed that every physician is professionally obligated to care for the uninsured or underinsured (73%), and most were willing to accept limits on reimbursement for expensive drugs and procedures for the sake of expanding access to basic health care (67%). By contrast, physicians were divided almost equally about cost-effectiveness analysis; just over half (54%) reported having a moral objection to using such data “to determine which treatments will be offered to patients.<\/p>\n

…the 28% of physicians who consider themselves conservative were consistently less enthusiastic about professional responsibilities pertaining to health care reform.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This last bit is a bit interesting, as at our Pennsylvania Medical Society Board retreat we discussed this last bit and the overwhelming consensus, as best I could tell, was that this was not controversial, and that part of our jobs was making these determinations.<\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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