Rep. Tom Price, the nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services in the new presidential administration, said during his confirmation hearing Wednesday that he was committed to President-elect Donald Trump’s vision of providing “insurance for everybody.”
His comment came about after Sen. Patty Murray, the Democratic ranking member on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee conducting the hearing, contrasted GOP plans to repeal and replace Obamacare with Trump’s interview last weekend with the Washington Post.
Although Republicans have moved forward with legislative efforts to repeal Obamacare’s budgetary provisions, they have yet to choose among several different plans to replace the health care law, including Price’s own bill. Democrats have made it a top priority to fight repeal of the signature healthcare legislation, as well as Price’s nomination.
