SURVEY SAYS! In a recent survey, 56% of the doctors polled say they are supportive of single payer health care and their reasons are simple: Less paperwork, less distraction, more time with patients.
OK, but will I still be sitting 20 minutes after my scheduled appointment reading a 2 year old magazine in the waiting area – PB/TK
Doctors warm to single-payer health care – By Rachel Bluth / Aug 17 2017
Single-payer health care is still a controversial idea in the U.S., but a majority of physicians are moving to support it, a new survey finds.
Fifty-six percent of doctors registered either strong support or were somewhat supportive of a single-payer health system, according to the survey by Merritt Hawkins, a physician recruitment firm. In its 2008 survey, opinions ran the opposite way — 58 percent opposed single-payer. What’s changed?
Red tape, doctors tell Merritt Hawkins. Phillip Miller, the firm’s vice president of communications, said that in the thousands of conversations its employees have with doctors each year, physicians often say they are tired of dealing with billing and paperwork, which takes time away from patients.
“Physicians long for the relative clarity and simplicity of single-payer. In their minds, it would create less distractions, taking care of patients — not reimbursement,” Miller said.
In a single-payer system, a public entity, such as the government, would pay all the medical bills for a certain population, rather than insurance companies doing that work.
Continue to salon.com article: http://www.salon.com/2017/08/17/doctors-warm-to-single-payer-health-care_partner/
