Study: Majority of U.S. doctors support public option

I love these surveys.
The inclusive "..support reforms including both a public option and private health plans", could also have other items that doctors find appealing and have to take the public option along with them. What bilge!

Blah, Blah Blah!!! This so-called "poll" was conducted by left wing activist doctors and as far as I am concerned, is almost certainly a complete fabrication and radical distortion of the facts. One of the physicians responsible for conducting the poll is Dr. Solomeh Keyhami. I was listening to what she said, but mostly I was looking for sponsorship of this event. In clear view posted on the front of the podium was a web site: www.ourfuture.org. Visit the web site yourself and you will find that this is a hate- filled, lie riddled, adgenda driven, propaganda spreading, cesspool of left wing drivel.

I know there are those of you out there that will completely disagree. That is your right. But if a legitimate poll were taken, I bet we would find that the truth is that the numbers are probably the opposite of what is being reported in this alledged poll.

Is anyone out there as tired of the radical left's attempt to hijack our government as I am???

This story as reported is very misleading because there were no published facts to support the alleged findings of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation sponsored survey. One should view any work sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation with some degree of skepticism. The foundation has a left of center political orientation which comes through as a bias in a lot of their funding of projects as well as their reports.

I am so tired of reading Ultra-Liberal articles from Anne Ziegler. Read the most important phrase in this article which she saves until the VERY LAST PARAGRAPH!!! : Only 10 percent support government run healthcare. I'm a doctor and have yet to meet one doctor that supports this ridiculous reform!

Anne Ziegler is a super LIBERAL and all of her comments should be viewed as such.

The survey is inaccurate and misleading... even with the final 10% disclaimer! My opinion of FierceHealthcare reporting has suffered when this type of so called reporting occurs. I welcome the many views that exist, but please do not print this type inaccurate so called "data". It is only opinion from the left.

I don't know who these people surveyed but I have been a healthcare professional for the past 47 years and none of the physicians that I know want a public option or a single payer system. We all believe that something must be done but we have just had a taste of what the bureacracy can do with the reimbursement for medications by the Medicaid program here in Florida. The reimbursement is below our costs. In addition, the woman heading the "Czar" post in the White house is the same person who destroyed the home health care profession in Medicare as well as Tennessee Medicaid.The physicians DO NOT WANT a single payer system but do agree that we have to make some changes. Thank you.

My math must be fuzzy...in the next to last paragraph, the author writes "...concludes that 27 percent of doctors support a private health plan-only option..." and in the last paragraph, she says "...when you take into account that 10 percent of doctors support a completely government-run public health system, if you lump those in, almost three-quarters of physicians support some form of public option..." How does 27% and 10% equal 'almost three-quarters?' Am I misreading that or did she mean one third, which is considerably different from three quarters?