Other key findings of the study include:

Most Americans support increased government funding for lowering out-of-pocket costs for patients (74%) and for expanding government health insurance coverage for low-income people (59%). However, Democrats are more supportive of these policies than are Republicans.
Views on doctors' pay are not tied to partisanship, with 37% of Democrats and 36% of Republicans saying doctors are overpaid.
Majorities of Americans do not believe the ACA had any effect on the salaries of health care workers such as doctors (54%) and nurses (61%). Fifty-three percent say it had no effect on hospital executives' pay.
69% of those who support a public option favor increasing the number of doctors, compared to 40% of those who oppose a public option.
72% of the public supports allowing the federal government and private insurance to negotiate for lower prescription drug prices.

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Most Americans believe nurses are underpaid; doctors and executives? Not so much