Unwinding Obamacare will be one of the most important tasks any health secretary has ever faced. With the help of Congress, newly sworn in Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price must rollback the law’s health insurance regulations that doubled premiums across the individual market, canceled 6 million peoples’ insurance policies, and threaten millions more with the prospect of having no insurance at all.
But Price must also ensure people with pre-existing conditions can access essential medical services after Obamacare. At a CNN town hall event, a former businessman told Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., “At 49, I was given six weeks to live with a very curable type of cancer … Being someone with a pre-existing condition, I rely on the Affordable Care Act to purchase my own insurance.”
