Today’s Students, Tomorrow’s Physicians: Opinions on Enacted and Prospective Health Care Policies
| Autor: | Bruce L. Henschen, Antoinette Oot, Jacob Fox, James R Blum, Cynthia S. Davey, Jordan M. Rook, Tyler N.A. Winkelman, Alec M. Feuerbach, Jacob B. Pierce |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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education
01 natural sciences Article Insurance Coverage 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Political science Physicians Health care Health insurance Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Prospective Studies 0101 mathematics Students Health policy health care economics and organizations Insurance Health business.industry Medicaid Health Policy Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 010102 general mathematics Public relations Healthcare payer United States Health care reform business Delivery of Health Care |
| Zdroj: | Int J Health Serv |
| Popis: | Future physicians will be key stakeholders in the formation, implementation, and success of health care policies enacted during their careers, though little is known of their opinions of enacted and proposed policies since the 2016 U.S. presidential election. This study aimed to understand the opinions of medical students related to policies including, but not limited to, protections for people with pre-existing conditions, a public option on the private exchange, and single-payer health care. Online surveys were completed by 1,660 medical students at 7 U.S. medical schools between October 2017 and November 2017. The authors used multiple logistic regression to examine associations between student characteristics and support of policies. In total, 1,660 of 4,503 (36.9%) eligible medical students completed the survey. A majority of respondents identified 4 extant Affordable Care Act policies as important, including its protections for patients with pre-existing conditions (95.3%) and Medicaid expansion (77.8%). With respect to prospective reforms, 82.6% supported a public insurance option, and 70.5% supported a single-payer health care system. Only 2.2% supported reducing funding for Medicaid. Although views varied by sex, anticipated specialty, and political affiliation, medical students largely supported prospective policies that would expand insurance coverage and access to health care. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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