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Senate confirms Price for HHS secretary

On a 52-47 vote, the Senate confirmed Congressman Tom Price as the head of the Department of Health and Human Services. What's next? A fight on the Affordable Care Act.

By Zachary Tracer, Arit John | Updated on February 10, 2017
On 52-47 vote, the Senate confirmed Congressman Tom Price as the head of the Department of Health and Human Services. What's next? A fight on the Affordable Care Act. (Photo: Getty)

The U.S. Senate confirmed Tom Price, a congressman and physician, to head the Department of Health and Human Services, a post where he’ll have a leading role in Republican efforts to dismantle Obamacare and implement its replacement, and oversee a budget of more than $1 trillion.

The vote was 52-47, making Price the most contentious nominee for the position since at least President Jimmy Carter’s administration. Democrats opposed him because of his free-market, limited-government views on how the American health-care system should operate, and his past efforts to privatize Medicare by turning it into a voucher system. They also strongly criticized him for leaving questions unanswered about stock purchases in medical companies he made while handling health-care legislation.

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