A recent poll by the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation found that by a large majority, the nation's physicians support public health care plans.
27% supported a private only insurance system.
63% support a system with both private insurance and a public plan
10% support an entirely public health care system
In summary: a whopping 73% of physicians support some sort of public plan for health care.
That should carry some kind of weight -- but it probably doesn't. At least among those who have the votes in Congress.
It's interesting: of Georgia's 13 members of the House of Representatives, three of them are physicians, all Republicans and all opposed to the Democratic proposed reforms, including the public plan.
I guess what that means is that doctors who run for Congress are, by and large, of a different mind set than those who don't. But at least it should be known that they do not speak for the medical profession.
Ralph
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