President-Elect Donald Trump on Tuesday tapped Georgia Rep. Tom Price to run the Department of Heath and Human Services, sending a strong signal that his pledge to repeal and replace Obamacare was more than campaign rhetoric.
Price, an orthopedic surgeon first elected to Congress in 2004, did more than simply vote dozens of times with his Republican colleagues to repeal the Affordable Care Act. He put forth a detailed blueprint of what would come next, a health care system that relies more on market forces than government mandates. – READ MORE