Table 3.

Odds of Endorsing Three Health Care Reform Principles and of Objecting to the Use of Cost-Effectiveness Data to Limit Treatments, According to Physician’s Clinical Specialty and Political Self-Characterization among 991 U.S. Physicians.^*

Variable	Agree Physicians Are Obligated to Address Health Policy Issues	Agree Physicians Are Obligated to Care for the Underinsured	Favor Limiting Reimbursement for Expensive Treatments to Expand Access to Basic Health Care	Object to Using Cost- Effectiveness Data to Limit Treatments
	odds ratio (95% confidence interval)
Specialty
Primary care	1.0 (referent)	1.0 (referent)	1.0 (referent)	1.0 (referent)
Surgery	0.7 (0.5–1.1)	0.7 (0.5–1.0)	0.6 (0.4–0.8)†	1.4 (1.0–2.0)
Procedural specialty	1.0 (0.6–1.5)	0.9 (0.6–1.3)	0.6 (0.4–1.0)†	1.0 (0.7–1.5)
Nonprocedural specialty	1.0 (0.6–1.7)	0.6 (0.4–1.0)†	0.8 (0.5–1.2)	1.3 (0.9–1.9)
Other	0.8 (0.2–3.2)	0.5 (0.1–1.9)	0.5 (0.1–1.8)	3.4 (0.7–17.0)
Nonclinical	1.3 (0.4–4.8)	1.0 (0.3–3.2)	0.3 (0.1–0.9)†	0.9 (0.4–2.3)
Political self-characterization
Conservative	1.0 (referent)	1.0 (referent)	1.0 (referent)	1.0 (referent)
Moderate	1.6 (1.1–2.2)†	1.2 (0.9–1.7)	1.9 (1.4–2.7)†	0.7 (0.5–0.9)†
Liberal	2.8 (1.8–4.5)†	2.0 (1.3–3.1)†	3.8 (2.5–5.6)†	0.5 (0.4–0.8)†

^*Odds ratios are from multivariate logistic regression, with adjustment for age, sex, race, and region.

^†P≤0.05