Alex Azar: Trump doing better than Obama on managing Obamacare

By Robert King

Published September 27, 2018 5:13pm ET

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Alex Azar: Trump doing better than Obama on managing Obamacare — Alex Azar is a former health official at HHS, where he served as deputy secretary under former President George W. Bush. He also is a former top executive for pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner) | Graeme Jennings/Washington Exami

Premiums for the most popular plan on Obamacare’s exchanges are expected to fall by 2 percent in 2019, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Thursday in a speech pushing back on criticism that his agency is sabotaging the law.

“The president trying to sabotage the [Affordable Care Act] is proving better at managing it than the president who wrote the law,” Azar said Thursday during a speech in Nashville.

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