title: Dueling for public support. Americans go gunning for managed-care plans as they stand by their docs.
abstract: If healthcare were a movie western, Americans would costume their doctors in white hats and HMOs in black hats. They'd cast hospitals as the Wild West merchant watching the gunfight from the doorway of his shop and themselves as the frightened townspeople waiting for the smoke to clear. That's the simple version of the complex portrait of U.S. public opinion on healthcare as painted by polling firms and survey organizations.
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Gardner
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006761:Hospitals / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010820:Physicians / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011639:Public Opinion; D014481:United States