do doctors oppose or support reform?

Hey, I’m for health reform. The costs are out of control and need to be reigned in. If you have more care, you should have to pay more. If you don’t need as much, you shouldn’t have to pay as much.

There is a system that pretty much ignores that, called “Medicare,” and it has resulted in requiring medical care to be provided at a loss for some providers, so the providers are bowing out & not acceptign medicare patients.

I don’t know that I think medical insurance reform is a good idea — see paragraph above. It is pretty clear that medical costs are going to continue to increase, and either insurance rate will increase or insurance companies will quit offering coverage; a government system to keep rates from increasing while costs are rising is obviously going to kill insurance. Requiring companies to accept patients that are guarenteed to cost more is going to make insurance more expensive (duh), and a government system that….see above.

You can always ask a question to which the answer is YES, and polls directed at getting support are pretty common. So what will the answer be if the question reflects reality, like:

Are you in favor of doing the same medical procedures for less income?

or maybe

Are you in favor of of paying more to maintain your current insurance coverage so that health care coverage can be expanded to others?