Tom Price

Sen. Patty Murray Blasts Tom Price For Expecting Women To Pay For Their Own Birth Control

... concerns” about his views on health care, especially any plans that would include requiring women to pay for their own birth control. “When women are empowered to plan their families and pursue all of their dreams, our communities benefit,” Murray said at the start of Price’s confirmation hearing Wednesday morning, adding that the Georgia representative’s effort to repeal and replace Obamacare would be taking “our healthcare system in a vastly different and harmful direction.”. SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER. “As a woman, as a mother, and a grandmother, and a United States senator, I am deeply troubled by the ways in which your policies would impact women’s access to health care and their reproductive rights,” Murray said, continuing. I have serious concerns about your understanding of women’s needs for basic health care like birth control given your expressed doubts on this topic. Your proposals to make women pay extra, out-of-pocket for birth control, and your repeated efforts to defund our nation’s largest ...

Tom Price's Stock Trading Scandal Isn't Going Away

... drug, which would treat multiple sclerosis, but its shares rose rapidly over the course of last year. Late in the hearing, Sen. Patty Murray decided to cross-examine Price about the circumstances of his investment. Murray: Well, Congressman Chris Collins who sits on president-elect Trump's transition team, is both an investor and a board member of the company. He was reportedly overheard just last week off the House floor bragging about how he made people millionaires from a stock tip. In our meeting, you informed me you made the purchases based on conversations with representative Collins. Is that correct. Price: No. What I. Murray:  That is what you said to me in my office. Price: What I believe I said to you is I learned of the company from Congressman Collins. Murray: What I recall our conversation was that you had a ...

Ethics Office Tweets In Middle Of Tom Price Hearing

... process. The ethics office's tweets came shortly thereafter, with messages outlining what it does - and doesn't - do. "OGE's focus is prevention; IGs investigate potential misconduct & @The Justice Dept prosecutes criminal violations," OGE tweeted shortly thereafter. "OGE oversees the executive branch #ethics program, while Congress & the Courts have their own ethics programs," they continued. "OGE does not handle complaints of misconduct. Please learn where & how to report #fed employee misconduct," the agency wrote , including links to its missions and procedures. OGE did not comment on the tweets on the record. Though the tweet did not specially refer to Price, the OGE has tangled with the incoming Trump administration before. The office's Twitter account has been vocal in advocating for full divestment by President-elect Donald Trump, which Trump is ...

Repeal And Replace Must Be Simultaneous

... back the global health scares like Ebola and Zika. Yet Mr. Price ’s nomination has become an early proxy fight over GOP plans to repeal Obamacare — a push the congressman would oversee if he were confirmed as secretary. Senate Health Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander opened the Georgia Republican’s hearing by calling for simultaneous repeal and replace of the Affordable Care Act, saying Mr. Trump himself wants it that way. “To me, that means at the same time,” Mr. Alexander, Tennessee Republican, said. As it stands, GOP leaders have kickstarted a budget process that allows them to gut Obamacare while avoiding a Democratic filibuster, citing the program’s rising premiums and dwindling choices on its web-based exchanges. Yet the party is still coalescing around a firm replacement, causing the health sector and people who rely on President Obama’s law to become skittish, even ...

Tom Price And The Future Of Obamacare

... from the classroom to the patient’s bedside. Seasoned physicians reflected on their experiences with patients and families who guided them along their own professional journey from student to doctor. There was no discussion of money, of insurance, of Obamacare. The day was all about the honor and duty of caring for people as they suffer or as they get well, of healing them. The ceremony culminates with the solemn reading of the Hippocratic Oath: “I will be loyal to the profession of medicine and just and generous to its members. … I will lead my life and practice my art in uprightness and honor, … holding myself far aloof from wrong, from corruption, from the tempting of others to vice. … I will exercise my art solely for the cure of my patients. … And now, if I be true to this, my oath, may good repute ever be mine; the opposite, if I shall prove ...

Tom Price Faces Bipartisan Grilling On How He Will Help The Medical Needs Of Minorities

... at the national stadium, but a spokesman said the ceremony will now take place at an undisclosed location. As a precaution, tourists have been evacuated from the Gambian capital, Banjul. Catherine Garcia. Bryan R. Smith/AFP/Getty Images. Sonny Perdue, the Republican former governor of Georgia, has been chosen to lead the Agriculture Department, Trump transition officials told Politico Wednesday, the last position in the Cabinet to be filled. A formal announcement is expected to be made on Thursday. Perdue was one of the first members of Donald Trump's Agricultural Advisory Committee, launched in August. Perdue earned his doctorate in veterinary medicine from the University of Georgia in 1971, and was a captain in the Air Force. Since 1977, he has owned several agribusiness and transportation companies, and in ...

Tom Price, Hhs Nominee, On Abortion And Other Issues

... 7%; and other health services, such as pregnancy tests or prenatal services, account for 13%, according to the organization's 2014-2015 annual report. After Vice President Joe Biden announced in June an ambitious, $1 billion "moonshot" agenda to reduce cancer deaths, currently the second leading killer of Americans. "We're all in favor of increasing funding for cancer research," Price told STAT News last year. "The problem that the (Obama) administration has is that they always want to add funding on, they never want to decrease funding somewhere else. That's what needs to happen.". Mental health and guns. Last year, Price told Georgia's Marietta Daily Journal newspaper that the country's mental health system needed to get better at diagnosing and treating at-risk individuals in order to stem violent crimes. Tom Price doesn't want to flaunt his own Obamacare bill at confirmation hearing. "To do otherwise would mean we continue to fail not only those afflicted with mental illness, but also their families, our communities and our nation," Price said. Price asserted that when ...

Betsy Devos And Tom Price Will Make A Huge Difference For Children

... wonder why the Secretary of Health and Human Services should give any thought to education at all. Yet a few early, coordinated steps between their two departments could produce big-dare I say huge — wins for America’s young children and for the new administration. The right moves now could generate much-needed bipartisan goodwill while expanding the kinds of private sector solutions to public problems they both champion. At less than four percent of total spending, the $20 billion voucher proposal floated for K-12 education is too little to have much impact, even if it survived the fierce opposition it will arouse. However, it could make a real difference for children under five in whom the nation invests far fewer public dollars, and many early childhood educators would warmly welcome a $12,000 per child voucher ...

Tom Price Faces Off With Elizabeth Warren In Senate Confirmation Hearing

... most comprehensive plans to replace the president's health care law. He is currently the chairman of the House Budget Committee. A day ahead of his hearing, Price already faced heavy criticism from the left. Sen. Chuck Schumer, the Democratic Senate minority leader from New York, told CNN that Price may have benefited from purchasing stock in a medical device company before proposing a measure that would have helped it. Schumer is calling for an investigation. Price traded in various health care-related stocks while being heavily involved in Congressional health policy. There are rules against using insider Congressional knowledge to profit personally, and critics of Price argue he may have violated these provisions But the Trump Transition team steadfastly defend its nominee against any charge of wrongdoing. If confirmed, Price has said he will sell his stocks. During the hearing, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat, grilled Price on this charge. She pointed out that while Price claimed not to have knowledge that a broker bought the company's stock without his knowledge, many observers would find this difficult ...