Physician Views on the Public Health Insurance Option and Medicare Expansions Slideshow

The slideshow highlights key findings from the RWJF survey of physician views on the public health insurance option and Medicare expansions. The September 14, 2009 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine summarized the survey which showed that 62.9 percent of physicians nationwide support proposals to expand health care coverage that include both public and private insurance options—where people under the age of 65 would have the choice of enrolling in a new public health insurance plan (like Medicare) or in private plans.

The survey was conducted between June 25 and Sept. 3 by Salomeh Keyhani, M.D., M.P.H., and Alex Federman, M.D., M.P.H., of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. While the survey was conducted in several “waves” over a tumultuous summer for the health reform debate, no statistically significant differences were identified in physician responses throughout the summer.