Senate Focuses on Price’s Obamacare Plans in Confirmation Debate
- Democratic Senator Wyden says Price favors ‘repeal and run’
- Georgia congressman’s stock trades also subject of scrutiny
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The U.S. Senate opened debate on confirming Republican congressman Tom Price as secretary of Health and Human Services, with the Democrats focusing their opposition Wednesday evening on the nominee’s plan to overhaul Obamacare as well as on the ethics of his past stock trading.
Price is an orthopedic surgeon from Georgia who was first elected to the U.S. House in 2004. As President Donald Trump’s HHS secretary, he’d be charged with coordinating Republican efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.