President Obama will be holding a health-care telephone town-hall today organized by AARP — an interesting choice, since the group is already supposedly on board with his reforms. I guess it’s easier to preach to the converted.

Meanwhile, Sen. Lamar Alexander, chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, will announce at a Senate GOP lunch today that Senate Republicans have reached more than 1 million Americans through telephone town-halls in the last 22 days (July 6–28). Their efforts will continue while the Senate is in session with more senators doing telephone town-halls as well as “The Senate Doctors Show,” hosted by Sen. Tom Coburn, M.D., and Sen. John Barrasso, M.D.

Of course, outreach events will continue throughout the August recess.

The Senate Doctors Show is pretty good — interesting that the only two doctors in the Senate are Republicans — but I still think Coburn and Barrasso should do it in full scrubs while performing surgery or delivering a baby or something — make it more like E.R.