Tom Price’s Real Crime
David Catron
October 2, 2017, 12:05 am
He was guilty of being a fierce and powerful opponent of Obamacare.
Anyone naïve enough to believe that Tom Price’s ouster from HHS was actually about his use of chartered jets may wish to consider this: The same transgression was committed on a much larger scale by numerous Obama administration officials, yet neither the “news” media nor the Democrats ever exhibited any outrage over far worse abuses by repeat offenders like Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch. This doesn’t excuse Price’s poor judgment, of course, but it is a reminder that he was hounded out of office for one reason and one reason only — he was a fierce and powerful opponent of Obamacare.
Until nominated by President Trump to be the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Price was widely respected in and out of Congress as a health policy expert whose experience as a practicing physician augmented his credibility. After his nomination, however, the Democrats and the media suddenly discovered that he was a wild-eyed extremist who would use his HHS position to harm women, seniors, the poor, and presumably puppies as well. They also ginned up a transparently phony conflict of interest charge involving a minuscule investment. Here is CNN’s breathless reporting on that transgression:
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