Core Hypothesis 1: Doubts about Professional Efficacy |
Medical care is ineffec tive. |
None |
Disagree that “adequate health care is essential for there to be equal opportunity.” |
Need is not an appropriate standard. |
Disagree that “people should get health care based on needs.” |
None |
Faith in science has been lost. |
None |
Disagree with allocating services to meet “basic needs” using “scientifically correct answers”. |
Core Hypothesis 2: Doubts about Professional Agency |
Physicians are commercially oriented. |
Agree that providers are “self-interested and out to make money from medical problems.” |
None |
Physicians are too sensitive about medical costs. |
Agree that “doctors no longer place your well-being above concerns about health care costs.” |
None |
Needs are not held foremost. |
Agree that providers “are no longer committed to meeting the needs of communities.” |
None |
Physicians do not care about the poor. |
None |
Agree that a physician-run health care system would be worse for the poor than would a system run by the federal government. |
Core Hypothesis 3: The Rise of Countervailing Authority |
The federal government's role in health care should be supported. |
Agree that “you need national solutions” to address the problems of the current American health care system. |
Agree that “it is the responsibility of the government in Washington to help people pay for doctor and hospital bills.” |
Employers’ involvement in health care should be supported. |
Agree that the American health care system would work better if “workers and managers bargain with one another to decide on health benefits.” |
Favors greater influence by business interests over “government health policies and programs.” |
Medical consumerism should be supported. |
Agree that “each person ought to make the choices” about health care. |
Agree that medical care is “not the responsibility of the federal government” and that “people should take care of these things themselves.” |
Core Hypothesis 4: Violation of Professional Boundaries |
Community involvement should be supported. |
Agree that solutions to health problems are best found by “local government or community-based groups.” |
Agree that allocating medical care through community-based groups would be “good for the country as a whole.” |
Physicians’ political influence is worrisome. |
Disagree with the claim that most people are “comfortable having physicians guide policymakers” about health policy. |
None |
Physicians’ political influence should be reduced. |
None |
Agree that physicians have too much influence over “government health policies and programs.” |