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Do you think assisted suicide should be legal in all states?
Yes. 0%
No. 0%

Do you think children with autism are being diagnosed properly and treated with the care they need?
Yes. 17%
No. 83%

Are you willing to pay higher taxes to guarantee that everyone has health insurance?
Yes. 73%
No. 27%

Do you think the US should legalize marijuana for medical reasons?
Yes. 86%
No. 14%

Do you think patients today are being over diagnosed?
Yes! 42%
No. 58%

Do you think the government, and industry, are doing enough to maintain food safety?
Yes. 33%
No! 67%

Do you think the government is doing enough to protect us from an influenza pandemic?
Yes. 67%
No! 33%

Do you want the new congress to support comprehensive medical care reform?
Yes. 71%
No. 29%

Do you feel that requiring medical experts to be boarded and practicing in the same specialty as defendant physicians will reduce the number of medical malpractice actions filed?
54%
46%
Yes, I feel it would reduce malpractice claims.
No, I do not believe it would make a difference.

Do you believe that binding arbitration favors physicians on the question of damages?
31%
69%
No, It does not.
Yes, It does.

Do you believe that binding arbitration of medical malpractice claims favors physicians on the question of liability?
69%
31%
Yes, It does favor physicians.
No, It does not favor physicians.

Do you believe that medical associations should have the ability to censure their members for providing testimony in medical malpractice actions?
0%
100%
Yes, I do.
No, I do not agree.

Do you believe that the use of confidentiality agreements should be prohibited in the context of medical malpractice settlements?
70%
30%
Yes, I Agree
No, I do not agree.

Do you feel that greater oversight or more regulation of the insurance industry would have prevented the current medical malpractice insurance premium "crisis?"
63%
38%
Yes
No

Do you agree that placing caps on non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases has lowered malpractice insurance premiums for doctors?
44%
56%
Yes
No

Do you feel that an attorney should be required to obtain an affidavit of merit from a physician before a medical malpractice suit may be filed?
63%
37%
Yes, I agree
No, I do not agree

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