As President Obama makes his case for health care reform to the AMA now, he includes a reference to Newt Gingrich while discussing progress being made in the overhaul to achieve a modern electronic record system.

As Newt Gingrich has rightly pointed out -- and I don't quote Newt Gingrich that often -- we do a better job tracking a FedEx package in this country than we do tracking a patient's health records

Indeed, this has been one area of bipartisan cooperation. But notably, the shout-out comes weeks after the former House Speaker issued a high-profile rebuke of the president's Supreme Court choice.

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