Tom Price in the crosshairs: Conservatives focus anger on Trump's health secretary over ACHA
THURSDAY, MAR 23, 2017 01:20 PM EDT
Tom Price in the crosshairs: Conservatives focus anger on Trump’s health secretary over American Health Care Act
Breitbart and talk-radio hosts are finding a new target for their Trumpcare rage
SOPHIA TESFAYE
Conservatives are beginning to eat their own in the debate over replacing and repealing the Affordable Care Act.
As President Donald Trump struggles to negotiate a deal with the most right-wing caucus in the House, conservatives who have spent the last several months celebrating the complete Republican takeover of federal government and mocking liberals are beginning to wake up to the idea that they have been swindled.
Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price has suddenly come under criticism from conservative media, after he argued this week that the White House-backed health care plan is better than a complete repeal of what Republicans derisively refer to as Obamacare. (In contrast some far right members of Congress this week have been taking the position that they would rather just repeal Obamacare than adopt Trumpcare.)
On Sunday, Price, a former conservative Georgia congressman, told ABC’s “This Week” that full repeal of Obamacare would “put vulnerable people at risk.” He added: “What that does is place vulnerable people at risk, and that’s not something that the president’s willing to do; it’s not something that he said he would do.”
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http://www.salon.com/2017/03/23/tom-price-in-the-crosshairs-conservatives-focus-anger-on-trumps-hhs-secretary-over-american-health-care-act/
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