The doctor vote: Interactions between political ideological preferences and healthcare reform strategies among U.S. physicians.

ABSTRACT:

Intro

Improving the American healthcare system has consistently predominated the domestic policy agenda in the United States for decades. However, physicians have traditionally played a small role in the U.S. legislative process despite their direct observations of the obstacles that cost, access, and quality can have on their patients and their care. The goal of this study was to examine the relationship between physician political ideological preferences and health policy reform options.

Methods

We conducted a cross-sectional survey of 3,001 currently practicing U.S. physicians to predict how self-identification as liberal, moderate, or conservative impacted a physician's policy preferences under the domains of cost, access, and quality.

Results

A total of 536 (18.8

SUBMITTER: Patel M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11325352 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature