Table 3: Student responses to survey questions on choice of health care system to achieve intended outcome

Intended outcome	Location of medical school	Percentage of respondents
		Health care system				No preference
		Government owned	Single payer	Multipayer	Private	No preference
Access to care for everyone	California	43.0	33.0	18.4	1.9	3.6
Access to care for everyone	Ontario	43.4	47.0	7.2	0.2	2.2
Care of the highest quality	California	4.5	26.7	34.1	26.3	8.5
Care of the highest quality	Ontario	8.6	40.3	28.9	15.4	6.8
Appropriate delivery of health care services (i.e., avoidance of over- or undertreatment)	California	15.0	39.5	28.0	10.2	7.3
	Ontario	20.9	53.2	18.9	2.5	4.5
Prevention of illness or disease	California	20.1	39.1	23.0	6.8	11.0
Prevention of illness or disease	Ontario	30.5	46.5	12.6	2.1	8.4
Fostering technological innovation	California	5.0	12.5	31.2	42.8	8.5
Fostering technological innovation	Ontario	4.5	13.4	29.7	41.5	10.9
Least waiting time for treatments	California	3.4	13.4	24.1	50.6	8.4
Least waiting time for treatments	Ontario	5.4	13.5	35.7	37.3	8.2
Freedom of choice for physician	California	5.6	16.6	24.4	44.0	9.5
Freedom of choice for physician	Ontario	5.5	26.3	29.5	27.6	11.0
Adequate physician income	California	3.9	15.3	27.6	38.1	15.2
Adequate physician income	Ontario	5.5	32.1	23.3	21.1	18.0
Least paperwork or bureaucratic burden for physicians	California	20.3	17.8	11.9	35.6	14.4
Least paperwork or bureaucratic burden for physicians	Ontario	24.3	22.3	8.5	22.2	22.7
Least interference with physicians’ decisions about patient care	California	8.3	18.2	17.5	40.7	15.4
	Ontario	10.8	36.0	11.2	26.4	15.7
Fewest potential financial conflicts of interest for physicians	California	38.3	25.1	14.4	10.9	11.2
	Ontario	47.9	34.1	5.2	3.8	9.0