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HHS nominee Price pressed hard on health policy positions, financial dealings

The Washington Post: Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services and one of Congress’s most vehement critics of the Affordable Care Act, told senators on Wednesday that “it is absolutely imperative” for the government to ensure that all Americans “have the opportunity to gain access” to insurance coverage — a more modest goal than the incoming president has set forth in recent days.

In a hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, Price laid out the central elements of his years-long attempt to replace the ACA along conservative lines. His statement about access to coverage was in sync with widespread GOP thought about promising consumers a chance to get insurance, but he stopped short of Trump’s comments this past weekend that he was seeking “insurance for everybody” in a nearly finished plan.

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