Current Psychiatry (Vol. 8, No. 11/November 2009) recently published an editorial, “Health care debate: Do psychiatrists support the public option?“.
I thought the title was a little misleading, though, because the figures that ended up being presented were from a survey of 5000 readers asking, “If you could reform the nation’s health care system, you would favor a single government-run system to cover every American?”
The results:
- 32.5% for “strongly agree”
- 23.4% for “agree”
- 17.2% for “disagree”
- 26.9% for “strongly disagree.”
While the majority of respondents supported a single payer system, the group obviously was somewhat polarized. The response rate was only 6% (320 responses). To what degree this small fraction of readers of this particular journal is representative of U.S. psychiatrists as a whole is unclear to me. I wonder whether the respondents tended to be a more opinionated group relative to the group of all U.S. psychiatrists. Psychiatrists wrote in many comments about the topic here.
Any thoughts?
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