TABLE 5.
Survey Respondents’ Attitudes Shaping Support for Medical Authority
| Dependent Variables | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supports Physician-Controlled Reforms | Physicians’ Control is Good for the Country | |||
| Explanatory Variables* | Coef. | Sig. | Coef. | Sig. |
| Doubts about Efficacy | ||||
| Medical care is not needed for equal opportunity. | −0.61 | 0.03 | −0.122 | 0.01 |
| Allocating services based on “scientific” answers may not be wise. | −0.187 | 0.01 | −0.202 | 0.01 |
| Questions about Agency | ||||
| Physician-controlled reforms will hurt the poor. | −0.159 | 0.01 | −0.368 | 0.01 |
| Support for Countervailing Authority | ||||
| Supports societal responsibility for medical care. | 0.086 | NS | −0.009 | NS |
| Favors more business influence over health policy. | −0.015 | NS | −0.044 | NS |
| Supports individual responsibility for medical care. | −0.100 | NS | −0.242 | 0.01 |
| Concerns about Violation of Boundaries | ||||
| Favors community control over medical care. | −0.021 | NS | −0.067 | 0.01 |
| Physicians have too much influence over policymaking. | −0.30 | NS | 0.025 | NS |
| Overall Regression Statistics | ||||
| R-squared | 0.129 | 0.267 | ||
| Number of observations | 1,415 | 1,413 | ||
*
Regression models also include variables measuring ideology, party affiliation, education, sex, race, ethnicity, and age.