By John McArdle
Roll Call Staff
Nov. 16, 2009, 12 a.m

As part of their multiprong strategy to shape the course of the health care debate, Republicans took to heart the classic 1970s song lyric, “doctor, doctor, give me the news.”

Specifically, Dr. Tom Price (Ga.) and Dr. Charles Boustany (La.) emerged as two authoritative voices on health care reform in the Republican Conference this fall.

Price is a former orthopedic surgeon who was tapped this year to serve as chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee. He used his unique background to discuss the real world effects of proposed health care legislation while preaching the importance of fiscal discipline.

At the RSC — which counts nearly two-thirds of House Republicans as Members — Price led the effort to craft one of the GOP’s alternative health care proposal.

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