Archives of Internal Medicine
February 9, 2004
Single-Payer National Health Insurance
Physicians’ Views
By Danny McCormick, David Himmelstein, Steffie Woolhandler, David Bor
We surveyed a random sample of physicians in Massachusetts… When asked which structure would provide the best care for the most people for a fixed amount of money, 63.5% of physicians chose a single-payer system; 10.7%, managed care; and 25.8%, a fee-for-service system.
Conclusions: Most physicians in Massachusetts, a state with a high managed care penetration, believe that single-payer financing of health care with universal coverage would provide the best care for the most people, compared with a managed care or fee-for-service system. Physicians’ advocacy of single-payer national health insurance could catalyze a renewed push for its adoption.
http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/164/3/300