HHS/TOM PRICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Tom Price left his job as Health and Human Services secretary in September, but the investigation into his use of private jets for official travel now threatens to enmesh others in the department. The department’s inspector-general’s probe will review who approved — or should have been approving — Price’s use of […]
Category: Tom Price
10/25/2017
DRUGS/FDA/HHS/SCOTT GOTTLIEB/TOM PRICE: “As the opioid epidemic in the U.S. continues to kill more and more Americans, the Food and Drug Administration wants to lift the stigma on the idea of using drugs to treat a drug habit. FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb told a U.S. House committee on Wednesday [10-25-17] that his agency is looking […]
10/10/2017
HHS/NOMINATIONS/TOM PRICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has appointed Eric Hargan as acting Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), the White House said on Tuesday [10-10-17]. Hargan, the deputy secretary of HHS, formerly served on Trump’s transition team for HHS. The appointment follows Tom Price’s resignation as HHS Secretary late in September over his […]
9/29/2017
HHS/TOM PRICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price resigned under pressure from President Donald Trump on Friday [9-29-17] in an uproar over Price’s use of private charter planes for government business. His abrupt departure was announced an hour after Trump told reporters he was disappointed in Price’s use of expensive plane […]
9/28/2017
ETHICS/HHS/TOM PRICE: “Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said he would stop traveling on private jets and reimburse the federal government more than $50,000 for his flights, a day after President Donald Trump said he wasn’t pleased with the practice and signaled it could endanger his job… Dr. Price, a former Republican congressman from […]
9/28/2017
ETHICS/HHS/TOM PRICE: “The White House approved the use of military aircraft for multi-national trips by Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price to Africa and Europe this spring, and to Asia in the summer, at a cost of more than $500,000 to taxpayers. The overseas trips bring the total cost to taxpayers of Price’s travels […]
9/27/2017
ETHICS/HHS/TOM PRICE: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [9-27-17] said ‘we’ll see’ when asked if he would fire Health and Human Secretary Tom Price in the wake of reports he has used taxpayer-funded private planes for government business. The President said he is ‘not happy’ about the practice several of his Cabinet members have engaged in… […]
9/23/2017
ETHICS/HHS/TOM PRICE: “Tom Price, the secretary of health and human services, said on Saturday [9-23-17] that he did not plan to travel on private jets until the department’s inspector general completes a formal review of the use of taxpayer funds for his chartered flights… In a report published late Saturday afternoon, Politico said it had […]
9/19/2017
HHS/TOM PRICE: “In a sharp departure from his predecessors, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price last week took private jets on five separate flights for official business, at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars more than commercial travel. The secretary’s five flights, which were scheduled between Sept. 13 and Sept. 15, took […]
8/8/2017
HHS/TOM PRICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price announced Tuesday [8-8-17] that President Donald Trump has no immediate plans to declare the nation’s opioid epidemic a public health emergency, a decision that flies in the face of the key recommendation by the President’s bipartisan opioid commission. Public health experts had said that […]
8/8/2017
CRIME/DRUGS/HHS/TOM PRICE: “President Donald Trump has scheduled what he called a ‘major briefing’ for Tuesday [8-8-17] on the epidemic of opioid drug use in the United States, a health crisis that kills more than 100 Americans daily. In the midst of a two-week getaway at his golf club in New Jersey, Trump will meet with […]
7/30/2017
HEALTHCARE/HHS/OBAMACARE(ACA)/TOM PRICE: “U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said on Sunday that it was his department’s job to follow the law on the Affordable Care Act, former President Obama’s signature domestic initiative known as Obamacare. Price, on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press,’ was asked whether he would implement the Affordable Care Act as it […]
6/28/2017
CABINET/HHS/TRUMP PEOPLE/TOM PRICE: “Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price’s appointment to be a cabinet secretary inadvertently saved him a big stock market loss, while as many as five members of congress may not have been so lucky. When Dr. Price was appointed to run HHS, he said he would sell 461,238 shares in an […]
6/11/2017
DRUGS/HHS/PHARMA/TRUMP PEOPLE/TOM PRICE: “Five years ago, Vivitrol was a treatment for opioid addiction that was struggling to find a market. Now, its sales and profile are rising fast, thanks to its manufacturers’ shrewd use of political connections, and despite scant science to prove the drug’s efficacy. Last month, the health and human services secretary, Tom […]
4/20/2017
CABINET/HEALTHCARE/HHS/OBAMACARE(ACA)/POLITICS/TRUMP PEOPLE/TOM PRICE: “While President Donald Trump insisted Congress repeal Obamacare within his first 100 days, the legislation was rushed, according to his Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Tom Price, and that’s why the Republicans failed. But the recent setback will not deter the Trump administration, he said during an interview at the Centers […]
04/04/2017
CABINET/CONFLICT OF INTEREST/HHS/TRUMP PEOPLE/TOM PRICE: “Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price more than tripled his investment when he sold shares in a small biotechnology company developing a multiple sclerosis drug that might one day seek approval from Dr. Price’s agency, public disclosures show. Dr. Price sold the shares of Australia-based Innate Immunotherapeutics Ltd. in […]
3/29/2017
CABINET/HHS/TRUMP PEOPLE/TOM PRICE: “Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said Wednesday he is obligated to uphold the Affordable Care Act as long it is in place but he didn’t commit to specific actions, including enforcing the requirement that most Americans pay a penalty if they don’t have health coverage. ‘So long as the law […]
3/4/2017
CABINET/HHS/TRUMP PEOPLE/TOM PRICE: “What he said: During his confirmation hearings, Price told senators that the discount he received on a stock he bought was ‘available to every single individual that was an investor at the time.’ What really happened: The Wall Street Journal reported that only 20 people were offered the discount at the time.” […]
2/9/2017
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 […]