[Buckeye McFrog]

Coburn seems to care mainly about what Medicare reimbursement rates will be if he ever goes back to practicing medicine.

[ScreamingFist]

“Coburn seems to care mainly about what Medicare reimbursement rates will be if he ever goes back to practicing medicine.”

Really?

“The federal government has become so large, it is impossible to grasp its true size and scope
or to pay for its costs. Nearly every corner of the federal government is rife with duplication,
mismanagement, and special interest carve outs. Each is protected by an entrenched bureaucracy, a
well financed lobbying group, an active and organized constituency, and an entrenched politician,
which time and again align to best any efforts to reform, cut, or eliminate government waste.
Perhaps there is no better recent example of this phenomenon then when only 15 of 100 senators
voted to defund the infamous Bridge to Nowhere in Alaska which had become the national symbol
of government waste.”

[Carry_Okie]

Coburn seems to care mainly about what Medicare reimbursement rates will be if he ever goes back to practicing medicine.

Uh, he's an OB-Gyn doc. I don't think many women are delivering babies on MediCare.