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Good
news! Rep. Tom Price is going to be Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services. CTH reports:
President-elect Donald J. Trump
has selected Representative Tom Price, a six-term Republican congressman from
Georgia who has led opposition to the Affordable Care Act, to be secretary of
health and human services, according to a transition team official.
Mr. Price, an orthopedic
surgeon, has been a severe critic of the health law, saying it interferes with
the ability of patients and doctors to make medical decisions.
And he says that events have
borne out his warnings. “Premiums have gone up, not down,” Mr. Price said
recently. “Many Americans lost the health coverage they were told time and time
again by the president that they could keep. Choices are fewer.”
An announcement of Mr. Price’s
appointment is expected as soon as Tuesday, according to the official, who
spoke on the condition of anonymity because the announcement had not been
released. [The WaPo announced it here.]
Some Republicans have attacked
the Affordable Care Act without proposing an alternative. Mr. Price, by
contrast, has introduced bills offering a detailed, comprehensive replacement
plan in every Congress since 2009, when Democrats started work on the
legislation.
From his days as a Georgia
state senator, Mr. Price, now 62, has been a voice for doctors, often aligned
with the positions of the American Medical Association and the Medical
Association of Georgia.
Even
the New York Times had something nice to say.
For
Tea Party people who were active during the run-up to the passage of Obamacare,
Tom Price is one of our heroes. Good news, indeed. And as Stephen Green (Mr.
Vodkapundit) adds on PJ Media, “Give that man a giant scalpel.”
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