Obamacare opponent Tom Price gets US senate’s nod for health secretary
Washington — The US senate voted on Friday to confirm representative Tom Price as the top US healthcare official, putting a determined opponent of Obamacare in position to help President Donald Trump dismantle the healthcare law. The Senate voted 52-47 to approve the conservative Georgia Republican and orthopaedic surgeon as secretary of the department of health and human services, a massive department with an annual budget of more than $1-trillion. His confirmation opens the door for legislators to consider Trump’s US treasury secretary-designate, Steven Mnuchin. A vote on his nomination is expected on Monday. Price, in his new job, will have authority to rewrite rules implementing the 2010 Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. Price could move quickly to rework the law’s regulations while waiting for Republicans in congress to keep their pledge to scrap the law entirely. Republicans, who have the majority in congress, are trying to craft a replacement for Obamacare but hav...
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