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Health Care Economics
Published Online: 5 March 2004

Mass. Physicians Back Single-Payer System

Publication: Psychiatric News
Volume 39, Number 5
https://doi.org/10.1176/pn.39.5.0036a
Nearly two-thirds of Massachusetts physicians support a national single-payer health care system, according to a survey published in the February 9 Archives of Internal Medicine.
Of 1,787 physicians, 904 (50.6 percent) responded to the survey. When asked which structure would provide the best care for the most people for a fixed amount of money, 63.5 percent of physicians chose a single-payer system; 10.7 percent, a managed care system; and 25.8 percent, a fee-for-service system.
The survey also found that 67 percent of respondents said they would accept a 10 percent reduction in fees in exchange for a “very substantial reduction” in paperwork.
The Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, which cites the survey, is posted at www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/print_report.cfm?DR_ID=22160&dr_cat=3. ▪

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