In yet another data point in the category of health reform’s success, Massachusetts doctors support the Commonwealth’s health reform! Bob Blendon of the Harvard School of Public Health in conjunction with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation, published yesterday a survey of Mass doctors in the New England Journal of Medicine. The results indicate that a large majority (70%) of our physicians are pleased with health reform and support the law three years after it was passed. A full three-quarters want to continue health reform, 46% with some changes and 29% as it is. When asked what changes they would like to see, physicians most often mentioned issues related to covering more of the uninsured and better controlling costs of health care. Only 13% of physicians polled oppose the health reforms created through the legislation and just 7% believe the law should be repealed.
Click here for the NPR story covering the survey, focusing on a primary care doctor, and here for the Globe’s today.
