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Web Conference (continued)  Penny Daniels: So that's how we
think physicians will react. Now what are the results to date
from your actual research surveying real physicians?  Dr. Gary
Young: I can give you some preliminary results. At this point in
our study, we have surveyed randomly selected physicians
participating in two of the seven programs regarding their
general attitudes about pay-for-performance, and specific
experiences to date in their respective programs. The two of the
programs together, we have obtained over 700 completed physician
surveys, about a 40 percent response rate so far. So in
discussing these results I won't identify the two programs
because we have not yet completed the survey, and so results are
not final.  Regarding general attitud