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or kill him.
"Lobbyist" is not a title of these Baltimore-area doctors are given, but Gloth and Beams are advocates lobbying biggest fight of the decade: the reform of U.S. health care system.
Members of Congress from setting up a final legislative product have responded to the efforts of members of the medical profession, who have been deeply involved for months. Just the other day, an aggressive lobbying campaign by doctors and hospital executives was credited with blocking a key element of the measure the health of the Senate, a proposal that would have allowed Americans between the ages of 55 and 65 to purchase in the Medicare program.
A vote Christmas Eve of Senate reform plan is in sight. If, as expected, the Democrats prevail, a home-Senate conference committee would have to reconcile the various plans of the two chambers, which would then have to ratify each engagement.
The decision legislative agreement will be strongly influenced by the months of closed door meetings between legislators and their staff and the Legion of traditional Washington lobbyists who are well paid to advance the interests of its customers.
AARP, for example, is widely credited with helping to persuade lawmakers to add a provision to close the "donut hole" in prescription drug plans for Medicare, at an estimated cost of at least $ 20 million, which some Democrats hope the drug industry to collect.
But one of the main lobbyists for the AARP, Nancy LeaMond, has said the most influential supporters in the fight this year for health care are those who have brought the tactics of political campaigns in the health debate.
For example, conservative opponents of Democratic Initiative had success in stoking a "type of fire," said, "especially implying that the government". A well known example: the furor over end-of-life, fed by false rumors of government "panels of Death, which shook the members of Congress in their town hall meetings in August.
Differ markedly Gloth and Beams in the best way to fix a system that everyone sees as badly broken. Perhaps surprisingly, given their opposing views are more than a little in common.
Idealistic and worker, grew up in local homes linked to the activities of medicine. Somehow, everyone finds time to fit the political activism in a busy life, as full-time physician and parents of young children.
Beams, 37, a pediatrician from Ellicott City, is trying to mobilize physicians in exercise - those not normally given to political activism - on issues such as changing the way doctors are paid.
"Obviously, to solve small problems here every day, "he said in an interview at his office in Columbia." But I've always been interested in the table great too. "
Last winter, he joined the doctors for the United States, the result of a group of doctors of the presidential campaign Barack Obama's. Email it to your personal contact list, asking medical friends to sign an online petition that was designed to draw them into the political process. When more than 1,000 responses back within 36 hours, the group gave him a leadership position. She is now the organization of doctors in Maryland, and eight other states, as field director for.
"Legislators want to hear from us, and his staff want to hear from us," he said. "As doctors, we have an area of specialization and a kind of moral authority, and it is important to raise the voice in the political process."
She has led efforts to encourage doctors and medical students in contact with legislators by mail, phone or in person, and has gone door to door in its complex of offices and the hospital to promote the Democratic plan. Took part in the event of a rose garden with Obama, appeared on PBS "News Hour" and MSNBC, and appeared in a video on the website of the White House.
However, beams, he said, He shrugged when a close friend from college phoned and said: "Thanks for all lobbyists for the health care reform." And I said, 'I'm not a lobbyist! "
A wife and mother of four children under 10 years, gets up most days 6 am-6: 30 am "Sometimes," said the doctor with a smile, "I am until 3 in the morning.
Gustar Beams, who has never met, Gloth has been pressing their particular ideas in the public domain. The goal: to influence Congress to change public opinion.
Recent national surveys have found that a majority of Americans oppose the plan being debated in Washington. But Gloth, which strongly opposes the legislation, disagreed with the idea that his team is winning.
"It seems nobody is happy with this, "said Gloth, a faculty member at Johns Hopkins Medical School and director of outpatient services for the division of geriatric medicine and gerontology Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore. "Here at Hopkins, I have very liberal people who think things have gotten so diluted that there is no difference and Conservatives are worried that things are moving forward. "
Gloth, 53, spends most of his time in private practice, it is of long-term elderly care services as medical director of a chain of nursing homes in Maryland and as a contractor for Manor Care. It has launched a company electronic medical records and is the author most recently of "Fit to fifty and beyond."
In an effort to influence local lawmakers, has called meeting of city phone led members of Congress, including Rep. John Sarbanes of Baltimore, and spoken at a series of forums organized by one of the opposition groups in the fight for health care.
Gloth said the legislation is being debated in Washington would mean more bureaucracy, higher costs and greater inefficiency - and would only "much worse" for physicians and patients.
"You do not want to misinterpret my negativity toward this bill to say that there is nothing better to do something," he said in an interview at the home of a nursing care Manor in Catonsville. "But there can only be changed by change. We must improve."
Gloth has become a favorite of Americans for Prosperity a conservative, free market that the group has encouraged public anger with the party of his "tea" the protests and helped organize opposition to the Democratic Republic restructuring plan last August at the public meetings of legislators.
"He has done everything we asked of him," Dave Schwartz Maryland director for the prosperity of Americans said that Gloth, which has been a speaker at the state of the group and national events.
The voice doctor Soft Finksburg Carroll County is not a newcomer to politics. Gives what sounds like an embarrassed laugh when reminded of his career success to Senate U.S. in 1998, when he finished third in the Republican primary in Maryland.
"As a doctor, this is a scary time. I have devoted my life to caring for the segment more fragile and vulnerable of our population in what I believe is a difficult environment, and I worry that it becomes insurmountable, "said Gloth, who begins his day at 4 am to help make time for his wife and four daughters, ages 9 and 18.
He is suspected of saving willing to let the federal government ineffective care or inefficient, and predicts that doctors will end up bearing an unfair burden of changes in Medicare, the federal government program of health insurance for over 65 years.
Gloth promotes alternative solutions to expand insurance coverage and contain costs, including health savings accounts linked to a version of the Law Federal Health Employees Health Benefits Program. However, a similar idea did not prosper under President George W. Bush, who could not get your savings account initiative through a Republican-controlled Congress because of Democratic opposition.
Gloth acknowledges that it is much better financially than most geriatricians, through its various companies, but criticized Medicare for effectively imposing "revenue caps" on doctors.
"You can be the doc up in your area and pay the same, sometimes less than a physician who just finished his fellowship or residency, "said Gloth, whose father, Fred M. Gloth Jr. was a high executive of what was then known as Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Maryland.
In addition, pediatricians range, with geriatricians, internists and family physicians, near the bottom of the pay scale physician. They would qualify for bonus payment of 5 percent or 10 percent for some types of services under the proposed Democrats, but would do little to close the earnings gap with highly paid specialists.
The beams, which is associated with his mother, Dr. Atiya Khan, a practice which serves 4,000 children, said that less money than the average of Howard County elementary school teacher.
Despite his support for the plan from Democrats concerned that the provisions to speed the transition to electronic health records "theoretically would put us out of business" because costs, estimated at $ 20,000 to $ 60,000 for a practice like yours. (By contrast, Gloth acknowledges that if the measure became law, despite its efforts, either could be a boon for venture Smart E-Records.)
"I'm here in the trenches with these kids sick patients and families every day, to see how the system is broken, "Beams said, who traces his activist streak backto their time at school in Park in Baltimore and at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, where the causes that brought human rights and the environment.
She remains an active supporter of Obama's plan, even after the president left with effective provision has been key to it - a government insurance option management that can compete with private insurers and make coverage health care more affordable for working class families that question. Beams of concern that many patients can not afford necessary medical insurance, even with government subsidies.
She defends the efforts of activists like her in pressing Congress to act, even after the commitments that have weakened the far beyond repair in the eyes of some liberals.
That "could have died in August," he said, when opponents submitted their loud protests.
"The legislation has a lot of good things," he said, for example, as insurers take prevention coverage or refusing to provide, firstly due to a pre-existing medical condition, which allows parents to maintain health coverage for their children until the age of 26. "Some changes is better than no change. It is likely that progressives our part to get behind the law. "
With Senate Democrats to pass a comprehensive reform in the measure, despite the unanimous opposition of Senate Republicans and widespread public doubts, Beams said he did not see it as a victory for his side.
"I see it as on patients and working Americans across the country who deserve a better health system delivery and deserve greater security health, "he said." I see it as something we must do as a nation, for our welfare population welfare and stability of the economy. It is not Democrats and Republicans or our side versus their side. "
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