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Physicians join citizens in favoring national health care
We can stop taking everyone else=92s word for how U.S. physicians feel
about national health insurance. When surveyed, 59 percent say they
now sup****t national health insurance, a 10 percent increase in
sup****t from five years ago.
According to a survey undertaken last year by Indiana University
School of Medicine and published in the April 1 issue of Annals of
Internal Medicine, sup****t for national health insurance is strongest
among psychiatrists (83 percent), pediatric sub-specialists (71
percent), emergency medicine physicians (69 percent), general
pediatricians (65 percent), general internists (64 percent) and family
physicians (60 percent).
Sup****t from general surgeons has doubled since 2002, with 55 percent
now backing national health insurance.
=93Across the board, more physicians feel that our fragmented and for-
profit insurance system is obstructing good patient care, and a
majority now sup****t national insurance as the remedy,=94 said study co-
author Ronald T. Ackermann, associate director of the Center for
Health Policy and Professionalism Research at Indiana University=92s
School of Medicine.
There were some exceptions. Less than 50 percent of surgical
specialists, radiologists, and anesthesiologists sup****t establishment
of a national health insurance program.
There are an estimated 47 million uninsured in the United States,
according to the latest Census, and another 50 million who are
underinsured.
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