MediLexicon -- "In the struggle to overhaul the nation's health care system, 16 physicians have ended up in ringside seats - as members of the House and Senate. But they have taken different lessons from their experiences in medicine, and they do not agree on what a bill should look like," The New York Times reports. "Of the doctors elected to Congress, 11 are Republicans and 5 are Democrats. Two serve in the Senate and 14 in the House, 7 of whom are on the three committees preparing a health care bill." Rep. Steve Kagen, D-Wis., an allergist, recalls patients who were too poor to fill prescriptions and says that a public plan could provide a possible solution. Rep. Vic Snyder, D-Ark., had also "dealt with patients who could not afford medicine at his family practice," yet he "remains hesitant about a public plan."
