National Health Insurance Survey
In a recent survey conducted by IU School of Medicine's Center for Health Policy and Professionalism Research (CHPPR) and published in the April 1 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine it was stated that 59 percent of doctors support government legislation to establish national health insurance.This is up from a similar survey in 2002 which only showed 49 percent supported national health insurance.
Why the increase?
The survey did not ask any detailed questions and did not attempt to qualify what National Health Insurance meant.
If physicians were given a choice between fixing the current system vs. National Health Insurance, the results would have been very different.
The media has run with this and make it sound as if all physicians want a National Healthcare System.
This is very misleading and dishonest.
We have a system that needs fixed and we have a government that needs to define what its role is supposed to be.
Labels: healthcare, legislation, survey
posted by Anonymous at 6:20 AM
1 Comments:
I am a bit surprised, I always believed private insurance is providing bigger (much bigger) money for doctors. On the other hand, also here doctors don't like private health insurance much. They called on the federal and provincial governments to immediately take all necessary steps to stop the spread of private health insurance for medically necessary services in British Columbia. Check my Life Insurance Canada site for this article.
Lorne
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