Table 3.

Associations Between Opinions About the ACA and U.S. Physician Characteristics

	OR (95 % CI)
	Agree the ACA would turn U.S. health care in right direction	The ACA would make physician reimbursement more fair
Primary specialty
Primary care	1.0	1.0
Surgery	0.5 (0.4–0.7)*	0.2 (0.1–0.5)*
Procedural specialty	0.6 (0.5–0.9)*	0.5 (0.3–0.9)*
Nonprocedural specialty	0.8 (0.6–1.2)	0.6 (0.4–1.1)
Non-clinical	0.9 (0.4–2.1)	0.9 (0.3–2.6)
Political self-characterization
Very or somewhat   conservative	1.0	1.0
Independent/moderate	5.0 (3.7–6.8)*	4.5 (2.2–9.1)*
Very or somewhat   liberal/progressive	33.0 (23.6–46.2)*	8.8 (4.5–17.5)*
Practice compensation type
Billing only	1.0	1.0
Salary only	1.7 (1.2–2.5)*	1.1 (0.7–1.9)
Salary plus bonus	1.4 (1.1–1.9)*	1.4 (0.9–2.1)
Other	1.0 (0.6–1.7)	0.9 (0.4–2.1)
Societal responsibility
Addressing societal health     policy issues falls in scope     of professional obligations
Strongly/moderately       disagree	1.0	1.0
Strongly/moderately       agree	1.5* (1.0–2.0)	1.2 (0.7–2.2)
Every physician has     responsibility to care for     un/underinsured
Strongly/moderately       disagree	1.0	1.0
Strongly/moderately       agree	1.7* (1.3–2.4)	1.0 (0.6–1.7)
Favor limiting coverage     to expand access to care
Strongly/moderately       disagree	1.0	1.0
Strongly/moderately       agree	2.3* (1.8–3.0)	3.2* (2.0–5.3)

Odds ratios presented here from multivariate logistic regression models including only those variables with significant findings. Other variables included in models were age, sex, race, and region

*Wald p value  < 0.05