Trump HHS pick wants to replace employer-sponsored health insurance with market alternatives

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President Donald Trump’s pick to lead policy planning at the Department of Health and Human Services has spent her career strategizing a free-market overhaul of the private health insurance market with the hope of bringing down costs for patients.

Ge Bai, Trump’s nominee for assistant secretary for planning and evaluation at HHS, has long been an outspoken advocate for laissez-faire healthcare reforms, including substantial deregulation of the employer-sponsored health insurance market.

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