CABINET/HHS/TRUMP PEOPLE/TOM PRICE: “The Senate is expected to confirm House Budget Chairman Tom Price (R., Ga.), President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, in a party-line vote in the early-morning hours Friday, placing him atop a sprawling agency tasked with dismantling the Affordable Care Act.
His confirmation would boost Republicans’ efforts to rewrite the ACA, as well as overhaul Medicaid, a push that has bogged down in recent weeks as the GOP struggles to unify behind a health law of its own. Democrats, beyond hoping to salvage the ACA, criticize Mr. Price as an industry insider who they say will favor the medical industry at the expense of patients.”
– Michelle Hackman, “Senate Confirmation Likely for HHS Nominee Tom Price,” The Wall Street Journal online, Feb. 9, 2017