A 2014 survey of Maine Medical Association members showed an increase in the percentage of members supporting a single-payer approach to health system reform — to 64.3 percent, up from 52.3 percent in 2008.

A study of hospital administrative costs in eight nations published in the September issue of Health Affairs finds that hospital bureaucracy consumed 25.3 percent of hospital budgets in the U.S. in 2011, far more than in other nations.