Duo Tout Slower Health Care Reform Pace

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Journal Record Staff Reporter

A pair of physicians, in Oklahoma City to counter Hillary Rodham Clinton's highly visible saber-rattling trip last month, Thursday urged Congress to slow down and to fully consider ramifications of health care reform before taking action.

America is not ready for the additional strain on the system and the attendant skyrocketing costs when universal coverage is installed, the pair said Thursday during a wide-ranging interview with The Journal Record.

"We don't want to railroad something through, then find out that in 10 or 20 years we've doubled our national deficit," said Dr. Joseph Stephen Alpert, a cardiologist at …