Table 2.

Physician familiarity and support of health care reform for all physicians and by primary care designation versus other physician specialties (n=521)

Question	All physicians (n=521)* %	Primary care physicians† (n=159) %	Other physician specialties‡ (n=362) %	P -value§
How well do you feel you understand what's in the current health care law?
Not At All Well	5.95 (31)	5.73 (9)	6.04 (22)	0.57
Not Too Well	17.47 (91)	15.29 (24)	18.41 (67)
Somewhat Well	54.70 (285)	53.50 (84)	55.22 (201)
Very Well	21.88 (114)	25.48 (40)	20.33 (74)
The Affordable Care Act, if fully implemented, would turn United States health care in the right direction:
Strongly Agree	21.11(110)	29.11 (46)	17.63 (64)	0.02**
Somewhat Agree	38.00(198)	37.97 (60)	38.02 (138)
Somewhat Disagree	20.15(105)	16.46 (26)	21.76 (79)
Strongly Disagree	20.73(108)	16.46 (26)	22.59 (82)
From what you’ve heard or read, do you think the current health care law will most:
Help My Practice	25.14(131)	38.22 (60)	19.51 (71)	<0.001**
Hurt My Practice	38.77 (202)	28.66 (45)	43.13 (157)
Don’t think it will help	36.08 (188)	33.12 (52)	37.36 (136)

^*0.8% missing responses for questions.

^†family medicine, general internal medicine/geriatrics, general pediatrics, general practice

^‡Includes surgery, procedural specialties, non-procedural, and non-clinical specialties

^§corresponds to comparison between primary care physicians versus other physician specialties as calculated with x2 tests

^**P < 0.05