TABLE 5.
Dependent Variables | ||||
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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.