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MDs Now Favor Reform – According to AIM
Staff Reporters
According to a study just released in the Annals of Internal Medicine [AIM], a majority of doctors now favor national health insurance [NHI] which represents a thought shift over the past five years.
Survey Results
The study conducted last year found that 59 percent of surveyed physicians supported “government legislation to establish national health insurance,” while 32 percent opposed it, and 9 percent remained neutral. In 2002, a similar survey found that 49 percent of physicians supported the concept, while 40 percent opposed it, reported the Washington Post.
Support Varies Among Specialists
The strongest support for NHI was among psychiatrists (83 percent), pediatric sub-specialists (71 percent), emergency room physicians (69 percent), pediatricians (65 percent), internists (64 percent) and family physicians (60 percent). About 55 percent of general surgeons support NIH or double the level of support in 2002.
NIH Definition
Typically, national health insurance plans involve a single, federally administered social insurance fund that guarantees health coverage for everyone, while in most cases these plans eliminate or substantially reduce the role of private insurance companies.
Conclusion
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Of Arnold Relman
This survey is in agreement with proponents of a universal health coverage system.
For example, as advocated by Arnold Relman, MD in his recent book, A Second Opinion: Rescuing America’s Health Care, “The present control of medical practice by market economies does not serve the health care needs of patients very well and is not compatible with a strong, ethically based profession … I urge physicians not only to support the development of a single-payer insurance system, but to help devise the reforms in the delivery system that must accompany a sing-payer insurance, if inflation in medical costs is to be controlled and quality of care improved.”
“The key to this new delivery system should be the development of prepaid multi-specialty medical groups in which physicians are paid largely by salary.”
Submitted by,
Robert James Cimasi; MHA, ASA, CMP
Health Capital Consultants, LLC
St. Louis, MO
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