A quick search of Christopher Lillis shows he is a MD, and practices as an internist in virginia.
He seems to have an unfavorable opinion of health insurance companies...
http://www.virginia-organizing.org/opinion_columns.php#181
Christopher Lillis Letter to the Editor 9-3-09
Rationing? Ask rich insurance CEO about it
As a primary care physician, I cannot help but follow the debate closely in Washington regarding health care reform. It has been quite discouraging to see this debate put into nearly purely partisan political terms when lives are hanging in the balance.
As someone who is in private practice and has long volunteered in free clinics, I have seen a rather disturbing trend: More and more Americans are losing their health insurance.
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This leaves me guessing, with every test I order and every prescription I write: Will my patient be able to afford this?
When patients struggle to get care while compensation packages for insurance company CEOs are in the tens of millions, I cannot help but think we are doing something wrong as a country.
Taking medical decisions away from private, for-profit insurers could save $400 billion, according to the organization Physicians for a National Health Plan.
Physicians for a National Health Plan happens to be a group advocating a single payer system.
He also seems to be and admirer of ted (remember Mary Jo Kopechne) kennedy...
http://drsforamerica.org/kennedy/
pledge to work every day with blog posts, letters to the editors of newspapers, and speak with my neighbors and patients about our moral imperative to pass health insurance reform.
Christopher Lillis, MD
Roland Goertz MD MBA FAAFP is president elect of the american academy of family practice.
you and read his bio of the AAFP sight here
http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/aboutus/governance/officersetc/directors/rolandagoertz.html
AAFP PAC predominately contributed to democrates in this 2008 donation breakdown...
http://www.campaignmoney.com/political/committees/american-academy-of-family-physicians-political-action-committee.asp?cycle=08
It’s advocacy seems to be to increase payments to primary care providers, and increase funding and primary care and services.
He himself has supported democrat chet edwards for congress in 2007
http://www.city-data.com/elec2/elec-WOODWAY-TX.html
In this editorial, he seems to advocate getting rid of the current insurance system, and having some form of universal healthcare for everybody, implemented incrementally
http://www.wacotrib.com/opinion/QA-on-health-care-with-Roland-Goertz-executive-director-of-Family-
Health-Center.html
Goertz, 54, has been a national advocate for affordable health care and for primary care doctors. He serves in numerous state and national organizations and is a board member of the 94,000-member American Academy of Family Physicians, which in 2006 honored him with the Robert Graham Physician Award.
interview continues in article.