Tom A. Coburn, MD Biography
- Title:
- Former US Senator (R-OK)
- Position:
- Con to the question "Is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) Good for America?"
- Reasoning:
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“[T]he new health law fails to address the top health care concerns of the American people…
Since passage, each week has brought new information about the unintended consequences of Congress‘ government-takeover of health care. Health plans are changing. Premiums are increasing. Physicians are dropping out of Medicare…
[T]this law will exacerbate current problems in health care and could make them even worse.”
Cowritten with John Barrasso, “Bad Medicine: A Check-UP on the New Federal Health Law,” www.heartland.org, July 2010
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Nick Ohnell Fellow, Manhattan Institute
- Member, US Senate (R-OK), 2004-2015
- Member, Senate Judiciary Committee, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Intelligence Committee, the Indian Affairs Committee and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
- Member, National Republican Congressional Committee
- Member, Promise Keepers
- Co-chair, Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, 2001-present
- Member, American Academy of Family Practice, American Academy of Otolaryngic Allergy, and the American Medical Association
- President, East Central County Medical Society
- Member, US House of Representatives (R-OK), 1995-2001
- Family Medicine Practice, 1983-1995
- Manufacturing Manager, Ophthalmic Division of Coburn Optical Industries, 1970-1978
- Board Member, Better Vision Institute, 1967-1977
- Board Member, Optical Manufacturers’ Association, 1973-1974
- Education:
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- MD, University of Oklahoma Medical School, 1983
- BS, Accounting, Oklahoma State University, 1970
- Other:
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- Born March 14, 1948 in Casper, Wyoming
- Member, First Baptist Church
- Ordained Deacon, Southern Baptist
- Married to Carolyn Denton, the 1967 Miss Oklahoma
- Father of three daughters
- Has delivered nearly 4,000 babies during career in obstetrics
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