Table 3.

Odds of Thinking Paying Patients for Health Outcome is a Good/Excellent Idea

	OR (95% CI)*
Quit smoking
Men	0.51 (0.29–0.90)
Smokers	2.73 (1.34–5.59)
Patients with diabetes	0.23 (0.09–0.55)
Thinks charging smokers more for health insurance is a good/excellent idea	0.47 (0.25–0.90)
Agrees/strongly agrees paying smokers to quit will lower everyone’s costs	4.76 (2.63–8.63)
Agrees/strongly agrees paying smokers to quit is not fair to non-smokers	0.31 (0.16–0.60)
Agrees/strongly agrees paying people to quit may be one of the only effective means to increase quit rates	5.72 (2.90–11.28)
Thinks insurance offering incentives to reward healthy behavior is a good/excellent idea	7.16 (3.50–14.64)
Agrees/strongly agrees people should not be paid to do things they should do anyway	0.23 (0.13–0.43)
Lose weight
Agrees/strongly agrees paying people to lose weight rewards obese people	0.51 (0.28–0.91)
Agrees/strongly agrees paying people to lose weight would be an effective incentive	11.89 (6.92–20.42)
Thinks insurance should offer incentives to reward healthy behavior is a good/excellent idea	5.61 (3.12–9.92)
Agrees/strongly agrees people should not be paid to do things they should do anyway	0.23 (0.13–0.39)

*Odds ratios (95% confidence intervals) are from multivariate logistic regression, which adjusts for all the other variables presented in this Table