GSS 1972-2024 Cumulative Datafile - Release 1

713. If you were to seek services for a problem with your 
emotions, nerves, or your mental health, how much would you 
agree or disagree with the following options? b. I would trust 
my family physician to prescribe psychiatric medication

713. If you were to seek services for a problem with your 
emotions, nerves, or your mental health, how much would you 
agree or disagree with the following options? c. I would only 
trust a psychiatrist to prescribe psychiatric medication

714. First, are you, yourself, covered by health insurance, a 
government plan like Medicare or Medicaid, or some other plan 
that pays for your medical care?

715. There are many different types of health care plans. I'd 
like to know which type of plan is most like yours. Please tell 
me if your plan has any of these features: a. Is there a book, 
directory, or list of doctors whom you must use?

715. There are many different types of health care plans. I'd 
like to know which type of plan is most like yours. Please tell 
me if your plan has any of these features: b. Can you choose any 
doctor you like in your community or elsewhere, perhaps paying 
part of the bill?

716. Have you ever switched your plan or the medical care 
provider within your plan due to dissatisfaction with a prior 
one?

717. Since you joined this plan, have you sought medical care 
for problems with your emotions, nerves, or mental health?

718. Were you able to get the treatment you sought?

719. How difficult was it to get the treatment that you sought: 
very difficult, somewhat difficult, or not at all difficult?

720. Were you denied services under your plan's benefit package?

721. The health care system is changing rapidly with more and 
more people being treated in Health Maintenance Organizations 
(or HMOs) and in managed care plans. How much do you agree or 
disagree with how the HMOs and managed care plans are working? 
a. They improve the quality of care