Modern Healthcare: Newly confirmed HHS Secretary Tom Price likely will spend his first few days focusing on efforts to stabilize the individual health insurance market as Republicans work to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
Following the pattern of strictly party-line votes on two previous nominees—Attorney General-designate Sen. Jeff Sessions and Betsy DeVos for education secretary—the former congressman from Georgia was approved on a 52-47 vote.
“(Price) can now get to work and focus on the task of replacing the failed Obamacare with sustainable, free-market principles,” Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) said in a statement.
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