Huckabee and Johnston Expound on Reform PharmExec.com (blog)
Data analytics firm SAS, last week, played host to a bevy of pharma executives at the company’s Health Care & Life Sciences Executive Conference. The highlight, however, was a duel keynote speech from former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and his sparring partner, former Massachusetts director of health and human services Philip Johnston.
The topic of conversation: Healthcare reform. What else?
Huckabee was in pure TV personality mode, revving up the packed room with his take on the state of healthcare.
“Today, if we were going to redo Wizard of Oz, Dorothy would be going to Washington with people with no heart, no guts, and no courage,” he said to the crowd.
Diagnosed in 2002 with Type 2 Diabetes, Huckabee (who by his own account once weighed as much as 300 pounds) was told by doctors that he would only have a decade left to live if he didn’t change his lifestyle—and that the decade would not be fun. He said that he decided to start being concerned about his health and exercise more.
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