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The Meaning of 'Access' to Health Care

Why Republicans like HHS nominee Tom Price are emphasizing “universal access” over “universal coverage”
Source: Joshua Roberts / Reuters

Representative Tom Price, President Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, has a word he uses often when he talks about his vision for health care in the United States: “access.”

“Access” kept coming up as the Georgia Republican answered questions from the Senate Finance Committee at his confirmation hearing Tuesday. Senator Ron Wyden asked Price if people would be worse off under the executive order Trump

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