TABLE 3.

Support for Medical Authority among the Public and Policy Elites, 1995

	Percentage Agreeing with the Statement
Measures of Support	General Public	Political Elites
From the Interviews
The best solutions to problems of American medicine come from “relying on those who provide health services.”	28.8	17.7
“The health care system would work better if doctors had full control over the system.”	18.5	2.0*
Medical care should be allocated by physician-run groups.	47.9	22.5*
From the Surveys
Favors physician-run health care reform (compared with other alternatives).	36.6	29.8*
Physician-controlled reform would be positive for the country as a whole.	47.7	35.0*

^*Difference between the public and elites was statistically significant at the 5 percent confidence level.