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Offline SirLinksALot

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SOURCE: CBS NEWS

URL: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-selects-georgia-representative-tom-price-department-of-health-and-human-services/



Rep. Tom Price, R-Georgia, has been named by President-elect Donald Trump as the Health and Human Services secretary, CBS News’ Major Garrett confirms, citing a senior transition source.

The decision is expected to be announced Tuesday morning.

The five-term congressman hailing from the Atlanta suburbs is the chairman of the House Budget Committee. He’s an orthopedic surgeon by trade, and was an early supporter of Trump’s presidential candidacy.

Price has also been a strong advocate, like his fellow Republicans, of repealing Obamacare. Price favors expanding health savings accounts and providing tax credits for purchasing health coverage.

Trump adviser Newt Gingrich has tweeted his approval, calling Price “the right leader to help Congress replace Obamacare.”

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Newt Gingrich ✔ @newtgingrich
Congressman Tom Price will be a great Secretary of Health and Human Services.He is the right leader to help Congress replace Obamacare.
9:47 PM - 28 Nov 2016
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From Wikipedia:

Price was born in the Michigan capital, Lansing. He grew up in Dearborn, where he attended Adams Jr. High and Dearborn High School.

He graduated with an M.D. from the University of Michigan. He completed his residency at Emory University in Atlanta, and decided to settle in the suburb of Roswell, where he still lives. He is a past President of the Roswell Rotary Club and has served on the Boards of the North Fulton Chamber of Commerce.

He ran an orthopedic clinic in Atlanta for 20 years before returning to Emory as assistant professor of orthopedic surgery. Price also was the director of the orthopedic clinic at Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital.

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Education
Ethics
Insurance and Labor
Health and Human Services
Reapportionment
Reapportionment and Redistricting (Chair)
Rules (Secretary)
Veterans and Consumer Affairs

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Never heard of the guy, so I looked up his background and it seems that Trump has made a good choice.  He seems pretty darn conservative:

In addition... "Tom Price opposes abortion and supported the proposed Protect Life Act, which would have denied Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) funding to health care plans that offered abortion (the PPACA already prevented public funding covering abortions) and allowed hospitals to decline to provide emergency abortion care. He was rated at 100 by the National Right to Life Center. He was rated at 0 by Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America. He participated in the 2011 March for Life....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price_(U.S._politician)

http://www.ontheissues.org/GA/Tom_Price.htm


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