Trump wants Tom Price for HSS. Price wants to repeal Obamacare & turn Medicare into a "block grant."
Trump’s Pick For HHS Signals He Is Dead Serious About Repealing Obamacare
Tom Price might go after Medicare, too
11/29/2016 12:35 am ET | Updated 9 hours ago
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-price-hhs-obamacare_us_583d0444e4b06539a78a3d45?8b6hwwig4vl323xr
President-elect Donald Trump is ready to name an ultra-conservative surgeon, Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), to run the Department of Health and Human Services, multiple media outlets are reporting.
The choice would appear to signal Trump’s determination to proceed with a major overhaul of federal health care programs ― including not just repeal of Obamacare but also, perhaps, the privatization of Medicare.
And Price has said he wouldn’t stop with Obamacare. In mid-November, not long after the presidential election, Price said that Republicans could also use reconciliation to change Medicare, as well.
Price has also endorsed transforming Medicaid into a “block grant” ― in other words, giving states a fixed sum of money with which to run the program and then reducing the federal government’s spending on it.
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