Tuesday, June 03, 2014

Doctors Giving More to Democrats

Politico reports:
Doctors are generally considered Republican supporters, but they’ve actually been shifting their campaign donations toward Democrats over the last two decades, says a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine. The change apparently has been driven primarily by the entry of more women into medicine and the diminishing number of solo and small practices. In the 1994 election cycle, 69 percent of physicians’ political donations went to Republicans. By 2010 that share had dropped to 53 percent.
No real surprise here. A government becomes a bigger "customer" , many want to get on Uncle Sugar's "good side".