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Congressman Tom Price, MD, nominated as HHS secretary
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President-elect Donald J. Trump announced Congressman Tom Price, MD, (R-Ga.) has been chosen as secretary of the HHS.
“It is an honor to be nominated to serve our nation as secretary of Health and Human Services,” Price said in a press release. “Thanks to President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence for their confidence. I am humbled by the incredible challenges that lay ahead and enthusiastic for the opportunity to be a part of solving them on behalf of the American people. There is much work to be done to ensure we have a health care system that works for patients, families and doctors; that leads the world in the cure and prevention of illness; and that is based on sensible rules to protect the well-being of the country while embracing its innovative spirit.”
Earlier this year, Price introduced the Empowering Patients First Act (H.R. 2300), which would fully repeal the Affordable Care Act and focus on the “principles of affordability, accessibility, quality, innovation, choices and responsiveness,” according to Price.
“Those principles form the foundation of the solutions in H.R. 2300 — solutions including individual health pools and expanded health savings accounts, tax credits for the purchase of coverage and lawsuit abused reforms to reduce the costly practice of defensive medicine,” Price said in a press release. “The solutions in the Empowering Patients First Act will get Washington out of the way while protecting and strengthening the doctor-patient relationship.”
Price worked as an orthopedic surgeon in private practice for nearly 20 years. A former assistant professor and medical director of the Orthopedic Clinic at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Price served in the Georgia State Senate for 4 terms and became the first Republican Senate Majority Leader in Georgia. In 2004, he was elected to represent Georgia’s 6th District. Price was named chair of the House Committee on the Budget in the 114th Congress and has previously served as chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee and chairman of the Republican Study Committee.
References:
https://tomprice.house.gov/about/full-biography
https://tomprice.house.gov/HR2300