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4. Money for Tom Price
Thu Mar 16, 2017, 02:24 AM
Mar 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/opinion/tom-price-dr-personal-enrichment.html?_r=0

But of course there is a larger context. Price has devoted much of his political career opposing expansion of health insurance. His preferred replacement of Obamacare would reduce health care benefits for sicker, poorer and older Americans.

His views have a long history within the medical profession. For decades, doctors used their political clout to help block universal health insurance. They offered many rationales, but money was the main reason. Many doctors feared that a less laissez-faire health care system would reduce their pay.

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