The survey was completed by 200 opinion leaders in academia & research, healthcare delivery, business, insurance, government, labor and advocacy groups, for a 15 percent response rate.
Here are some of their other responses.
* 92 percent support Medicare and Medicaid payment reform pilots, with 57 percent saying they strongly support such pilots.
* 76 percent support undertaking medical malpractice and tort reform, which would be tested in state pilot projects funded by the law.
* 88 percent are concerned or very concerned about an adequate supply of primary care providers.
* 79 percent are concerned with states’ capacity to implement reform.
* 75 percent are concerned enforcement of the individual mandate for buy health insurance.
* 84 percent favor moving up availability of federal funding for state coverage expansions on innovations such as cost control and payment and system reform.
* 81 percent favor extending the higher federal matching rate for Medicaid until the economy recovers.
* 46 percent felt the public plan option should be revisited.
View the Commonwealth Fund survey on health reform (pdf).
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