HCD reports physicians voices against Obama's Health Care Reform Plan

Wednesday, 11 March 2009 02:14 |

Healthcare IT News - Healthcare Informatics

Report by HCD express negative views of physicians on Obama's health plan.

A recent research report published by HCD Research, a New Jersey based marketing and communications research company, came out with different views of physicians on Obama's Healthcare reform plan. The study was conducted nationwide among 526 primary care physicians during February 26-27. The major outcome of the research was , after viewing video segments from President Obama’s speech to Congress, around 61% of the respondents reacted that the healthcare delivery will get worse in the next four years where 20% believes that it will get better and 18% thinks that it will remain the same.

The main objective of the study was to get hold of physicians impressions on President Obama’s new health care reform plan that was outlined in his speech to Congress on February 24, 2009. Nearly half (49%) of respondents indicated that skepticism was the emotion they felt most while watching President Obama outline his new health care reform plan. And majority of them, (64%) believes that their professional life would get worse in the coming four years. 21% said that it will be the same as earlier and 14% believes that their professional life will get better.

When the physician were asked about the emotion that they felt after viewing the speech, among 526 respondents, the majority 49% replied skepticism, 21% said they got inspired and 12% treated as disturbing , and 10% accounted for anger. The remaining percentage break ups are
Sadness-1%
Confusion -2%
Embarrassment-1%
Pride-3%
Happiness-1%

While viewing the video clip, participants indicated their levels of agreement by moving their mousefrom left to right on a continuum. The responses were recorded in quarter-second intervals and reported in the form of curves.

Source: HCD Research

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