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    Trump to name Obamacare critic Tom Price as health secretary

    Trump to name Obamacare critic as health secretary

    by Tami Luhby @Luhby November 28, 2016: 9:44 PM ET

    President-elect Donald Trump has selected Georgia Representative Tom Price, an ardent critic of Obamacare, to head the Department of Health and Human Services, according to an official briefed on the decision.

    The official announcement will likely come Tuesday.
    One of Price's top priorities as health secretary will be to dismantle the sweeping health reform law that his two predecessors spent six years implementing.

    Price, an orthopedic surgeon who chairs the House Budget Committee, has long decried Obamacare as a threat to quality and affordable health care.


    Related: Obamacare under President Trump: What happens next?


    "The purpose of health reform should be to advance accessibility, affordability, quality, responsiveness, and innovation," the Republican congressman said in 2011, a year after Obamacare was signed into law. "None of these are improved" by the Affordable Care Act, he added.


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    Before entering politics, Price spent nearly 20 years in private practice as an orthopedic surgeon. He also served as medical director of the orthopedic clinic at Grady Memorial Hospital and as an assistant professor at Emory University's School of Medicine
    Price then spent four terms in the George State Senate. In 2004, he was elected to the House of Representatives. He was named Budget Committee chair in 2015.

    Related: Americans are freaking out about losing Obamacare


    Price has authored several iterations of an Obamacare replacement plan, which bears many similarities to Trump's vision for health care reform and to House Speaker Paul Ryan's overhaul proposal.

    Price's most recent bill, The Empowering Patients First Act of 2015, calls for giving refundable tax credits to those who buy policies in the individual market. The credits would be adjusted by age, ranging from $1,200 for those age 18 to 35 to $3,000 for those age 50 and up.


    Related: Major changes for Medicaid coming under Trump and the GOP


    The plan would also offer more incentives for Americans to use Health Savings Accounts, including a one-time $1,000 tax credit for making contributions. It caps the tax exclusion on employer-sponsored plans at $20,000 for family coverage, and it allows insurers to sell coverage across state lines. Price's bill also pushes states to create high-risk pools to insure those rejected by carriers on the individual market -- usually those who have costly, pre-existing conditions.


    Related: How Trump may cover Americans with pre-existing conditions


    Also, it limits using federal funds to pay for abortions and protects health care providers who don't want to perform abortions for religious reasons.


    More recently, Price has touted Ryan's health care plan, titled "A Better Way."


    "It's time for a better way to put patients, families, and doctors back in charge of medical decisions," Price said in October. "President Obama and Democrats must put their pride and politics aside so that we can start over with a Better Way—a step-by-step plan to give every American access to quality, affordable health care."

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    Trump to nominate Rep. Tom Price for HHS secretary, sources say

    Published November 29, 2016 FoxNews.com

    President-elect Donald Trump will nominate Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., to head the Department of Health and Human Services, two sources close to the transition told Fox News late Monday.

    Trump was expected to formally announce Price's nomination Tuesday morning.

    If confirmed by the Senate, Price will play a central role in Republican efforts to repeal and replace ObamaCare. Trump has pledged to move quickly on overhauling his predecessor's signature measure, but has been vague about what he hopes to see in a replacement bill.

    The president-elect has said he favors keeping provisions that allow young people to stay on their parents' health insurance and that prevent insurance companies from denying coverage to those with pre-existing conditions.

    Price, a 62-year-old six-term congressman and orthopedic surgeon, has chaired the House Budget Committee for the past two years. A bookish conservative from the Atlanta suburbs, Price has worked closely with House Speaker Paul Ryan to assemble GOP budgets aimed at reducing the annual deficit.

    Last week, Price said whatever Republicans do to replace Obama's health care law will bear a "significant resemblance" to a 2015 measure that was vetoed by the president. That bill would have gutted some of the health care law's main features: Medicaid expansion, subsidies to help middle-class Americans buy private policies, the tax penalties for individuals who refused to get coverage and several taxes to support coverage expansion. The bill would have delayed implementation for two years.

    Price insisted that Republicans can keep the protections for those with existing medical conditions without mandating that all individuals carry coverage or pay a penalty to support an expanded insurance pool. Price said Republicans want to address "the real cost drivers" of health care price spikes, which he said were not necessarily sicker patients, but a heavy regulatory burden, taxes and lawsuits against medical professionals.

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    Ryan wants to mess with Medicare and I'm opposed to doing anything to change Medicare for our senior citizens. Leave Medicare alone, fix the mess and what doesn't work for those under 65, and get on down the road.

    Price's plan sounds great absent any alignment with Ryan on messing with Medicare. Seniors are too stressed to deal with any change to Medicare. They paid for it for over 50 years, they still pay for it every month with their premium charges, and most have to go to the private market and purchase supplemental insurance because Medicare is still just an 80/20 deal on most items, some are 87%, but the big ticket items are still 80/20. Leave their drugs alone, leave it all alone as it is, and with that, Price and Trump working together will come up with great plans and private options for everyone else.

    Price and Trump are right, it's not the insurance industry ripping US off, it's the medical care costs, most of them charged by not-for-profit 501 C 3 "charity" hospitals. 80% of US hospitals are 501 C 3 orgies. If you can't afford an emergency room visit or a simple operation, it's because the "charity" is charging you more than you can afford. Go Figure.

    Pass the FairTax and force this bloated industry to run like a business, with the objective of providing the better result at a lower price.
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    What about the costs of prescriptions. We pay the highest costs and other countries pay less. Are WE picking up the tab for other countries too?? I am tired of the USA getting RIPPED OFF by other countries and these back door deals.

    Leave our Medicare and Social Security alone. Cut off ALL foreign aid and pay back our Social Security.

    Boot all ILLEGALS out of our hospitals and medical centers. They can get their care in Mexico. And the pregnant ones caught at the border...fast track them right back over and deport them ASAP.

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    Yes, Beezer, the high number of uninsured are poor people, who are either immigrants or illegal aliens or children of same who can't afford health care or choose not to pay for it, and the Americans who were put out of work by illegal aliens and excess legal immigrants and free trade treason. We have Medicaid for our own poor people, we even have SCHIP for lower middle income folks, we have Medicare for our Senior Citizens with many supplemental insurance options out there to help them, the "health care crisis" has been caused by excess immigration, both legal and illegal, and the loss of good jobs with the loss of our manufacturing due to free trade treason. This influx of labor and their families have thrown everything in our country off-balance, adding too many new poor people and creating more poor people of our own people who were self-sustaining until they lost a job to an immigrant or illegal alien all happening at the same time as this move to free trade treason that sucked all the good jobs out of the country.
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    Canada pay less for prescriptions and WE are subsidizing it.

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    HHS nominee Price opposes Obamacare, backs Medicare vouchers

    As a congressman, Georgia Republican Tom Price has been thwarted in his hopes to repeal the Affordable Care Act and transform Medicare into a voucher-like program for future participants

    Nov. 29, 2016, at 12:50 p.m.

    Elevators close on Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., as he arrives at Trump Tower, earlier this month. CAROLYN KASTER/AP


    By ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press

    WASHINGTON (AP) — As a congressman, Georgia Republican Tom Price has been thwarted in his hopes to repeal the Affordable Care Act and transform Medicare into a voucher-like program for future participants.

    Now, as President-elect Donald Trump's choice to run the Department of Health and Human Services, Price will wield great power as Trump's top health policy adviser and preside, Republicans hope, over the dismantlement of President Barack Obama's signature health care law.

    Price, 62, carries himself with a surgeon's confidence and possesses deep knowledge of health policy. He is one of very few Republicans to actually propose a replacement for Obamacare, and promises to be a staunchly conservative voice in Trump's Cabinet. Price is buttoned down and unfailingly polite, but he is not shy about swinging his elbows in the heat of debate.

    As chairman of the House Budget Committee, Price emerged as a top advocate of Speaker Paul Ryan's plan to transform Medicare from a program that supplies a defined set of benefits into a "premium support" model that would, similar to Obamacare, offer subsidies for participants to purchase health care directly from insurance companies. He also wants the Medicare eligibility age to rise to 67.


    Price said last month that "every single day Obamacare is making the quality of health care in this country worse ....Patients and taxpayers cannot afford Obamacare and clearly this law was doomed from the start."

    Any changes to Medicare and the health care law would be far-reaching, affecting some 85 million Americans.

    Price also backs, as does Trump, a plan by House Republicans to sharply cut the Medicaid health program for the poor and disabled and turn it over to the states to run. Like Trump and most other Republicans, Price wants federal funding withdrawn from Planned Parenthood, which has come under attack for its practice of supplying tissue from aborted fetuses to medical researchers.


    Trump has said he opposes GOP plans to provide vouchers for future Medicare beneficiaries and GOP support for the idea has never been tested beyond its inclusion in non-binding budget blueprints. Price's plan would require people who are now in their late 50s to accept the Medicare subsidies, which critics say would fail to keep pace with inflation and force higher out-of-pocket costs like deductibles and co-payments.

    Trump named Price on Tuesday and called him "a tireless problem solver and the go-to expert on health care policy, making him the ideal choice" to run HHS.

    "He is exceptionally qualified to shepherd our commitment to repeal and replace Obamacare," Trump said.

    While Republicans are generally united in their desire to repeal Obama's health law, there's no consensus on what should replace it. Price has offered a solution that would provide tax credits to subsidize the purchase of individual and family health insurance policies. His proposal would also allow insurers to sell policies across state line, boost incentives for health savings accounts, and create high-risk pools to help individuals afford coverage, while barring assistance for nearly all abortions.

    It will fall to Price, once confirmed, to be the prime go-between Trump and Capitol Hill Republicans in what are certain to be difficult and complicated negotiations over replacing the health care law. Price serves on the powerful Ways and Means Committee, which has jurisdiction over Obamacare, but he hasn't been seen as an inside player in much of the panel's work.


    The HHS secretary also has great power over the workings of Medicare and Medicaid and the medical profession in general.

    Price led the House Republican Study Committee, a powerful band of conservative voices, during the first two years of the Obama administration. He lost a close election in 2012 to become the No. 4 Republican in House GOP ranks despite the support of Ryan, a friend and confidante. At the time, Republicans faced criticism for a lack of diversity in their leadership ranks, and GOP leaders like former Speaker John Boehner of Ohio swung behind Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington state.

    Democrats reacted with alarm to the naming of Price, though they lack the power to block him because of a change to filibuster rules they orchestrated when controlling the Senate.

    "Congressman Price has proven to be far out of the mainstream of what Americans want when it comes to Medicare, the Affordable Care Act, and Planned Parenthood," said incoming Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. "Thanks to those three programs, millions of American seniors, families, people with disabilities and women have access to quality, affordable health care. Nominating Congressman Price to be the HHS secretary is akin to asking the fox to guard the hen house."

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    It's the multinationals, they open up a Pfizer Canada and Canada has price controls since they're socialized medicine so you're right, the free trade helps Canada and hurts US. Our companies charge 4 times here so they can under-price it in Canada and I'm sure Mexico as well.

    I'm not sure what the solution is, I've not taken time to study this one, but Trump's already on to this, he's talked about it lots of times, so hopefully he'll come up with a good plan to reduce the cost of pharmaceuticals in the US. We pay for almost the whole cost of new drug development which is huge, there's no doubt about it.
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