Most doctors do not like the public option

Rush, I'm glad you called attention to the fact that AMA membership is declining. It's believed the membership is declining because the AMA has a history of opposing government plans beginning with Truman's plan in the 40s, Medicare in the 60s, and until yesterday, the President's plan. Perhaps that's why the AMA changed its position on a national health plan.

Here is the latest and most respected poll covering the physicians response to Obama's plan.

"Most doctors — 63 percent — say they favor giving patients a choice that would include both public and private insurance. That's the position of President Obama and of many congressional Democrats. In addition, another 10 percent of doctors say they favor a public option only; they'd like to see a single-payer health care system. Together, the two groups add up to 73 percent.

"The survey was published online Monday Sept. 14, 2009 by the New England Journal of Medicine. It was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a health care research organization that favors health reform."

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112818960