{"id":446827,"date":"2010-03-19T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=79704"},"modified":"2010-03-19T09:00:29","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T13:00:29","slug":"eric-cantor%e2%80%99s-office-promotes-flawed-%e2%80%98doctors-will-quit-if-hcr-passes%e2%80%99-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/446827","title":{"rendered":"Eric Cantor\u2019s Office Promotes Flawed \u2018Doctors Will Quit if HCR Passes\u2019 Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/BDayspring\/status\/10687553936\">Twitter feed<\/a> of Brad Dayspring, spokesman for the GOP whip&#8217;s office:<span id=\"more-79704\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-79705\" title=\"Picture 15\" src=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Picture-15-480x255.png\" alt=\"Picture 15\" width=\"480\" height=\"255\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dayspring doesn&#8217;t mis-attribute the study to the New England Journal of Medicine, but I think <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/sciencebiz\/2010\/03\/will-health-reform-cause-doctors-to-flee\/\">Peter Lipson at Forbes<\/a> does a good job unspooling the unscientific Medicus poll that&#8217;s at issue here.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>When asked, &#8220;How do you think the passage of health reform WITHOUT a public option would affect your professional\/practice plans, if at all?&#8221; 70% of respondents said, &#8220;no change.&#8221;\u00a0 It is not reported in this data, but apparently primary care physicians, who made up about a third of respondents, were more likely to say that they would leave medical practice.<\/p>\n<p>I have no doubt that there are unsatisfied physicians out there.\u00a0 This data, gathered unscientifically, hyped by the survey company, and widely picked up by partisan media, is not a reliable measure of doctors&#8217; responses to health care reform.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If the bill passes, I wonder if this sort of hyperbole will be remembered the way Republican claims that Bill Clinton&#8217;s 1993 budget would bring about a massive recession are remembered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From yesterday&#8217;s Twitter feed of Brad Dayspring, spokesman for the GOP whip&#8217;s office: Dayspring doesn&#8217;t mis-attribute the study to the New England Journal of Medicine, but I think Peter Lipson at Forbes does a good job unspooling the unscientific Medicus poll that&#8217;s at issue here. When asked, &#8220;How do you think the passage of health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}