Trump goes a different direction in his choice of HHS secretary
by Cathleen Decker, Los Angeles Times
Nov 14, 2017
3 minutes
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump's first secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Tom Price, was an ideological warrior, bent as the president is on repealing and replacing Obamacare, the signature domestic achievement of the former president. Even though he was steeped in health care policy, Price was an outsider to the agency he was sent to run.
The second time around, Trump went in the opposite direction, on Monday nominating as Price's replacement Alex Azar, a former pharmaceutical executive and a
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