TABLE 4.
Interviewees’ Attitudes Shaping Support for Medical Authority
| Dependent Variables | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Should Rely on Physicians for Policy Answers | Physicians Should Control Resources | Favors Physician-Run, Group Health Plans | ||||
| Explanatory Variables* | Coef. | Sig. | Coef. | Sig. | Coef. | Sig. |
| Doubts about Efficacy | ||||||
| Need is not an appropriate standard for health care. | −0.024 | NS | −0.171 | 0.02 | −0.171 | 0.02 |
| Questions about Agency | ||||||
| Physicians are too monetarily oriented. | −0.212 | 0.01 | −0.093 | NS | 0.127 | NS |
| Physicians are too concerned about medical costs. | 0.060 | NS | 0.050 | NS | 0.125 | NS |
| Needs are not treated as the foremost concern. | −0.008 | NS | −0.117 | NS | −0.92 | NS |
| Support for Countervailing Authority | ||||||
| Favors national solutions to health problems. | 0.072 | NS | 0.038 | NS | −0.153 | 0.05 |
| Values employer-based health decisions. | 0.050 | NS | 0.138 | NS | 0.070 | NS |
| Supports active role for medical consumers. | 0.229 | 0.01 | 0.063 | NS | 0.052 | NS |
| Concerns about Violation of Boundaries | ||||||
| Values community participation in medical care. | 0.124 | NS | 0.058 | NS | −0.077 | NS |
| Physicians are not trusted to make good policy choices. | −0.323 | 0.01 | −0.287 | 0.01 | −0.286 | 0.01 |
| Overall Regression Statistics | ||||||
| R-squared | 0.357 | 0.343 | 0.297 | |||
| Number of observations | 148 | 148 | 148 | |||
*
Regression models also include variables measuring ideology, party affiliation, education, sex, race, ethnicity, and age.