However, the remaining quarter spend a greater proportion of their time on private work.
Obama's public talk and the private work of his team are aimed at more comprehensive assistance tied to viability.
But though some indeed are, the row over the new deal has very little to do with private work.
However, consultants were allowed to take on private work - a move that led to the growth in private care in private hospitals.
About 30% of its sales are now in the civil sector (although admittedly civil work for the government far outweighs its private work).
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But the BDA's Scottish committee said the "target-driven" qualifying criteria would mean more practices might abandon all health service patients to focus solely on private work.
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Many dentists do not find the NHS fee scheme lucrative enough, and that the demand for private work is high enough to support their entire practice.
Currently, most foundation trusts are limited to generating around 2% of their income from private work, but under ministers' plans this will rise to a maximum of 49%.
Only one third of consultants actually undertake private work.
And the surgeons could be working even longer - the survey confined itself to hours spent on worked in the NHS, but the vast majority of consultants take on additional private work.
The Counsel General has a defined set of responsibilities to perform and is not precluded from undertaking private work provided it is not in a legal area which might cause conflict with Welsh Government devolved responsibilities.
In particular, Mr Burnham said he feared the new freedom for hospitals to earn 49% of their income from private work would "damage the character and culture" of the NHS and take it closer to an American model.
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One of the key developments was the news, which emerged just after Christmas, that NHS hospitals would be allowed to do 49% of their work in the private sector - something which could potentially mean eight in 10 increasing their private work 25-fold.
The amount of private work being taken on had not increased, it found, the rate of decline in productivity had slowed, the ratio of full-time consultants to total staff in the NHS had risen and pay rises not linked to performance had slowed.
The few Qataris who do work in the private sector mainly work for banks or oil companies.
But the council-owned firm would also be able to be seek private care work.
There was just something about not having my personal life private at work that always made me shy away from developing any work-relationships.
For example, the commercial viability of thin film PV is due mostly to private sector work, and a lot of it leveraged from other applications.
Kent says he felt uncomfortable about how Allen increasingly planned to have some of his other private companies work with Charter in his so-called wired-world vision.
Mr Ely, who went on to do private security work in Iraq for several years, said there was a strange atmosphere in Baghdad after the statue was toppled.
The researchers also managed to pinpoint the way private schools work their magic: through better exam results, rather than through networking opportunities or better teaching of soft skills, such as etiquette or leadership.
The same logic applies to public subsidies for any good or service where producers enjoy significant monopoly power: Direct provision of public goods has market forces on its side, while subsidies for private purchases work against the market.
"Our responsibility is to work with those private providers, to work with the voluntary organisations, to work with schools to try and increase the supply, " he told 5 live.
We're going to make it easier for the private sector to work with us to support the Army's Renewable Energy Program, by reducing private sector risk and streamlining the approval process.
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Moreover, while private companies may work well in countries with well-developed capital markets, countries without a robust sector for private investment can actually benefit from state investments, providing certain conditions are met.
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About a fifth of Britain's private-sector employees work for heavily indebted companies owned by private-equity firms, notes Christopher Hall, a lawyer who sits on the EHYA's insolvency-reform committee.
"The goal is to let the private sector process work, with some monitoring, " says Duckworth.
The private engine may work, but many voters suspect that privatisation leads to corruption.
Additional powers to enable local authorities to levy rates on private parking at work are also needed.
And just as employees in the private sector often work from home or coffee shops, so do state employees.
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