Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Just What The Doctor Ordered


I want to shed a little "lyte" today on common sense. The New England Journal of Medicine published a poll showing that a significant majority of doctors support a public option. I repeat, support a public option.

63 percent of the doctors polled support a combination of public and private insurance. An additional 10% support a complete government takeover of health insurance. When those numbers are combined, 3 out of 4 doctors want a public option.

Funny, I am not seeing a lot of buzz about this in the mainstream media. Even Huffington Post has buried it on their political page. You can bet if 3/4ths of the doctors had come out against a public option, it would be all over the networks, and the blogosphere.

So, roughly the same percentage of doctors support the public option as do ordinary citizens. Then why do we continue to see stories about the public option being in danger? Wishful thinking? Or are we seeing the influence of advertising and campaign dollars at work?

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