Rep. Tom Price's (R-GA) nomination to be Secretary of Health and Human Services should be rejected for two key reasons: first, his truly stunning corruption and second, because he would be a nightmare for the health of millions of Americans. Something like 400 health professionals—researchers and medical faculty members—have signed an open letter to Congress to tell them to reject Price. Their statement begins:
Not only is Congressperson Price accused of compromising himself with insider knowledge concerning stock trades on the health care market, but he has long advocated for changes in our health care system that will have devastating consequences for millions of Americans. Together with other Republicans, Price seeks to privatize Medicare, drastically cut funding for Medicaid and the Child Health Insurance Program, eliminate the Affordable Care Act, end funding for the many services provided by Planned Parenthood, damage women’s access to reproductive health measures more generally, and enable discrimination against LGBT individuals seeking health care.
Then follows the litany of programs he would destroy, from Obamacare to Medicaid and Medicare and Planned Parenthood, programs that cover a growing number of Americans.
And in fact, it's not just people who don't have employer-sponsored insurance who could lose out with Price. He's has his own healthcare plan, one which would: end coverage for preexisting conditions, reduce benefits for people who have employer-sponsored plans, reinstate insurance companies' ability to cap annual and lifetime limits on coverage, and end the guarantee of preventive care without copays. These are all things that everyone with any kind of insurance get through the Affordable Care Act. All of which Price would jettison.
He's not going to be making the replacement law, but he would be the voice of the Trump administration in whatever it is Republicans might come up with. He'll be pushing his extreme vision for health care in America. Which looks even worse than what we had before Obamacare, because then we at least had decent Medicare, Medicaid, and Planned Parenthood.
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