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</div><div><b>Former Anti-Marijuana Congressman And Top Trump Health Official Joins Cannabis Company Board, </b>Documents ShowPublished 2 years ago on August 9, 2021By Kyle Jaeger&nbsp;</div><div>
</div><div>A former head of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is serving as a member of the board of directors for a medical marijuana business in Georgia, according to documents obtained by Marijuana Moment.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Tom Price, who served as HHS secretary under President Donald Trump for seven months before resigning following criticism over hundreds of thousands of dollars in travel expenses, is listed as a board member of Botanical Sciences, LLC, one of six cannabis businesses to win licenses last month under Georgia’s limited medical cannabis program.</span></div><div>
</div><div>A former congressman who repeatedly voted against marijuana reform, Price’s involvement in the industry is notable on its own. But it’s also the case that as health and human services secretary, he was empowered to initiate proceedings to formally recognize cannabis’s medical value and reschedule it under federal law—a move he chose not to take. Now, he’s apparently part of an industry that’s generating billions of dollars in sales every year.</div><div>
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</div><div>To say that Price resisted reform being joining the board of a medical cannabis company may be putting it lightly. As a congressman, he voted six times against appropriations bill amendments to simply shield state medical marijuana programs from federal interference by the Department of Justice. Those protections were eventually enacted over his objection, and remain part of federal spending law today.</div><div>
</div><div>On three occasions, he also opposed appropriations measures to allow U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs doctors to recommend medical cannabis for their military veteran patients.</div><div>
</div><div>Price did, however, vote for more incremental measures to shield limited state laws allowing CBD from federal intervention and to protect state industrial hemp programs.</div><div>
</div><div>But advocates say they’re appalled to see someone who so consistently opposed broad patient access now standing to benefit from the increasingly legal industry.</div><div>
</div><div>“As a dad of medical cannabis patient, a parent that spent seven years at the Georgia Capitol lobbying to try to pass a medical cannabis program, I can only start to express my disappointment when I found out that Tom Price was on the board of directors of Botanical Sciences, one of the companies that received a class 1 license to cultivate and distribute cannabis here in Georgia,” Sebastien Cotte, co-founder and board member of Georgia’s Hope, told Marijuana Moment.</div><div>
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</b></div><div><b>Price’s wife, Betty, is a former Georgia state representative who regularly opposed modest reforms, including legislation to create the state’s existing program that allows patients to access low-THC oils for a select number of condition</b>s.</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Tom Price at the federal level and his wife Betty Price at the state level have been strong opponents of cannabis for years,” Cotte said. “They did all they could to not only destroy our grassroots efforts in Georgia but they also tried to put every medical cannabis program in the country in jeopardy.”</span></div><div>
</div><div>Betty Price did, however, voice support for one resolution that called for minor federal rescheduling of marijuana—again, a move that her husband did not initiate when he had the power to do so as a member of Trump’s cabinet.</div><div>
</div><div>Botanical Sciences earned one of the highest scores among Georgia medical cannabis license applicants. The Georgia Access to Medical Cannabis Commission announced its intent award licenses to the company and other successful applicants in July.</div><div>
</div><div>“To think that someone so anti-cannabis is now on the board of a company that received a license and that he will be able to financially benefit from medical cannabis sales In Georgia is truly sickening and a slap in the face of every parents, patients and advocates who fought so hard for the past seven years to bring a medical cannabis program in our state,” Cotte said.</div><div>
</div><div>Former state Rep. Allen Peake (R), who sponsored the legislation that created the Georgia medical cannabis program, slammed Price’s involvement in the industry in an interview with the Atlanta Journal Constitution.</div><div>
</div><div>“To have a guy who fought so diligently against everything we’ve worked so hard to accomplish here in Georgia and then receive a license, it was a tough pill to swallow,” said Peake, who applied for but did not receive a license. “It’s the height of hypocrisy.”</div><div>
</div><div>Activists similarly took umbrage when former House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), who opposed marijuana legalization while in office, joined the board of cannabis company Acreage Holdings.</div><div>
</div><div>Georgia’s medical cannabis programs allows patients with specific qualifying conditions—including cancer, epilepsy and intractable pain—to access tinctures, gel caps, topicals and oils containing no more than 5 percent THC.</div><div>
</div><div>Class 1 licenses, of which Botanical Sciences is set to receive one of two being awarded by officials, authorize up to 100,000 square feet of cultivation space and allow for the manufacture of low-THC cannabis medicines. Those businesses can also be issued up to five dispensary licenses.</div><div>
</div><div>Officials with Botanical Sciences, including founder and CEO Robin Fowler, did not respond to Marijuana Moment’s repeated requests for comment on this story.</div><div>
</div><div>The news about Price comes shortly after it was disclosed that President Joe Biden’s nominee for director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) worked for a major marijuana business last year.</div><div>
</div><div>Rahul Gupta, selected to run ONDCP, worked as a consultant to Holistic Industries, a multi-state cannabis operator, for nine months in 2020.</div><div>
</div><div>This adds to the novelty of this particular administration pick, who had already caught the attention of reform advocates given his record overseeing the implementation of West Virginia’s medical marijuana program as state health commissioner and chair of a key advisory board. He’s also publicly recognized both the therapeutic and economic potential of cannabis reform.</div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>art robinson</b> pee, Dr dis prep</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</div><div><b>Trump’s Pro-Abstinence HHS Appointee Fits an&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Unnerving ‘Pattern’</span></b></div><div>Jennifer Gerson Uffalussy·Contributing Writer</div><div><b>June 7, 2017</b></div><div>
</div><div>On Tuesday, the Trump administration quietly appointed Valerie J. Huber as chief of staff for the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Huber most recently served as president and CEO of Ascend, an organization focused on promoting abstinence-only education in schools. She was previously the abstinence-education coordinator for the state of Ohio, where she oversaw abstinence programs for more than 100,000 students per year.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Valerie J. Huber&nbsp;</div><div>In a memo to HHS staffers by&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Acting Health Secretary Doug Wright, he called Ascend “a Washington DC-based professional association that champions youth to make healthy life and relationship decisions.”</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">But abstinence-only education — or what many on the far right call “sexual risk avoidance” — is seen by many health advocates as ineffective, and frequently leave out certain demographics of young people that are especially vulnerable, including LGBTQ teens and pregnant and parenting teens.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Why Experts Are Concerned</div><div>
</div><div>Diana Thu-Thao Rhodes, the director of public policy for Advocates for Youth, says there is a&nbsp;<b>pattern not only of Trump appointees being named to offices whose very mission they seem to oppose</b>, but also<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">&nbsp;one emerging among HHS appointees specifically who are united in their opposition to contraception.</span></div><div>
</div><div>“There is definitely in HHS and the Trump administration a focus on rolling back birth control coverage and access to contraception in general,” Thu-Thao Rhodes says. “And yet another pattern of this administration is that they don’t see contraception as a preventative service and integral to women’s health. There’s a pattern here of people being appointed to key positions by the administration who think this way.”</div><div>
</div><div>Echoes Leslie Kantor, PhD, MPH, and the&nbsp;<b>Vice President of Education at Planned Parenthood</b>&nbsp;Federation of America, “At Planned Parenthood, we are very concerned about an increasing number of anti-women’s health, anti-sex education, anti-science appointments in the Trump administration.”</div><div>.</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Last month, Teresa Manning was tapped as deputy assistant secretary for population affairs at HHS, the role that oversees the administration of Title X, the national family planning program. In a 2003 interview, Manning stated on the record that she believes that contraception doesn’t work.</span>&nbsp;Manning has also criticized the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists for recommending that prescribers offer advance prescriptions of the morning-after pill and has&nbsp;<b>called emergency contraception “medically irresponsible” and “anti-family.”</b></div><div>
</div><div><b>Charmaine Yoest, Trump’s appointee to serve as assistant secretary of public affairs for HHS, is opposed to intrauterine devices (IUDs) as a form of birth control and has falsely said that they have “life-ending properties.</b>” As noted in a memo circulated to Senate Democrats from the staff of the minority members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee earlier this week, “IUDs do not work after implantation and therefore cannot end pregnancies. Additionally, recent data from the Guttmacher Institute found that unplanned pregnancies are at a 30-year low, largely a result of an increase in the use of long-acting reversible contraceptives like IUDs. The [Affordable Care Act] has been critical in increasing access to IUDs by removing cost barriers for women seeking contraceptive services.”</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><b>HHS Secretary Tom Price&nbsp;</b>has also spoken on the record about his opposition to the contraception mandate of the ACA</span>, telling a reporter in 2012 that “<b>there’s not one woman” who does not have access to birth control — and thus does not need it guaranteed as part of her insurance coverage at no cost. Price is also vehemently outspoken on his opposition to federal funding for<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> Planned Parenthood</span> </b>and his support of seeing the organization dropped as not just a Medicaid provider, but also a Title X provider. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Planned Parenthood serves more than 40 percent of Title X patients, including teens, despite making up just 13 percent of all Title X health centers.</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">And&nbsp;<b>Dr. Scott Gottlieb,</b>&nbsp;Trump’s appointee to head the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has repeatedly insisted in his own words that the contraception mandate of the ACA harms women’s health.</span></div><div>
</div><div>“These appointments have an enormous impact on the lives and future success of young people in our nation,” Ginny Ehrlich, CEO of The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, tells Yahoo Beauty in a statement. “<b>We hope these officials will exercise their responsibilities in a way that builds on past successes in reducing teen and unplanned pregnancy, rather than going backwards.”</b></div><div>
</div><div>Bipartisan Support for Comprehensive Sex Ed</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">According to the Guttmacher Institute, research “suggests that strategies that promote abstinence-only outside of marriage while withholding information about contraceptives do not stop or even delay sex. Moreover, abstinence-only programs can actually place young people at increased risk of pregnancy and STIs.”</span></div><div>
</div><div>“The point of sex education is that you want to get to young people before they become sexually active. You don’t want them to get critical information after the fact,” Kantor says. “Good sex ed lays the groundwork throughout childhood and the teen years so that when you’re in the situation when you’re in a relationship and navigating and negotiating having sex for the first time, you are well prepared and have all the information you need to protect yourself.”</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Adds Kantor, “There was a very, very important change in the country in<b>&nbsp;2010</b>&nbsp;when for the first time, rather than pouring money into abstinence-only-until-marriage programs, money started to be appropriated for evidence-based approaches — approaches found to help young people change their behavior either by delaying sex or by using condoms and contraception when having sex. We don’t want to see things roll backwards to the bad old days of abstinence-only-until-marriage education.</span>”</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">January 2017 polling by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy found that 85 percent of American adults — including 89 percent of Democrats and 75 percent of Republicans — favor maintaining federal funding for the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program and the Personal Responsibility Education Program, both of which utilize evidence-based, comprehensive sex education curricula.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Furthermore, the National Campaign’s polling found that 79 percent of Americans — including 81 percent of Democrats and 73 percent of Republicans — believe that teens should receive more information about abstinence and birth control and sexually transmitted infection protection.</div><div>
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">southerners in trump cab</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; text-underline-offset: 0.25em; margin: 1.6875rem 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; text-underline-offset: 0.25em; font-weight: 700;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">TOM PRICE, Secretary of Health and Human Services</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; text-underline-offset: 0.25em; margin: 1.6875rem 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An orthopedic surgeon and six-term congressman from Georgia, Price&nbsp;<a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2016-05-11/the-latest-trump-comes-away-with-hefty-delegate-haul" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-underline-offset: 0.25em; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">endorsed President Trump's campaign</a>&nbsp;in May 2016. Like Trump, Price has been a vociferous critic of the Affordable Care Act. Price was also a member of the right-wing&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/19/business/19physicians.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-underline-offset: 0.25em; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Association of American Physicians and Surgeons</a>, a group founded in 1943 that opposed Medicaid and Medicare and that continues to "<b>fight socialized medicine and to fight the government takeover of medicine."</b></font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; text-underline-offset: 0.25em; margin: 1.6875rem 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Price has been dogged by questions about his cozy relationship with the health industry before and after his cabinet nomination, which<b> Democrats boycotted in committee </b>and which only narrowly succeeded on a 52-47 vote in the full Senate.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; text-underline-offset: 0.25em; margin: 1.6875rem 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As a congressman, Price received&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00026160" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-underline-offset: 0.25em; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">generous backing from the health and pharmaceutical industries</a>, and he wasn't shy about going to bat for his backers. As the investigative website ProPublica&nbsp;<a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/when-a-study-cast-doubt-on-heart-pill-the-drug-company-turned-to-tom-price" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-underline-offset: 0.25em; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">documented</a>, Price urged a government agency to remove a damaging drug study on behalf of a pharmaceutical company whose CEO donated to Price's campaign.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; text-underline-offset: 0.25em; margin: 1.6875rem 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As a U.S. representative, Price&nbsp;<a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/hhs-nominee-tom-price-targeted-panel-that-urged-fewer-cancer-screenings" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-underline-offset: 0.25em; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">repeatedly attacked</a>&nbsp;the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force, a group of physicians and academics who evaluate which medical procedures are backed by good science and provide advice to insurers under the Affordable Care Act. After the Task Force judged that certain cancer screenings weren't necessary&nbsp;— a move that could cause health practitioners to lose patients&nbsp;— Price and other Republicans lashed out at the Task Force's "bureaucrats."</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; text-underline-offset: 0.25em; margin: 1.6875rem 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Last December,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> the Wall Street Journal&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trumps-pick-for-health-secretary-traded-medical-stocks-while-in-house-1482451061" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-underline-offset: 0.25em; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">reported</a>&nbsp;that Price "traded more than $300,000 in shares of health-related companies over the past four years while sponsoring and advocating legislation that potentially could affect those companies' stocks</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">." Reports by&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/16/politics/tom-price-bill-aiding-company/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; text-underline-offset: 0.25em; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">CNN</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/tom-price-intervened-rule-hurt-drug-profits-same-day-acquired-drug-stock" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; text-underline-offset: 0.25em; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">ProPublica</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;and&nbsp;</span><a href="http://time.com/4636351/tom-price-drug-companies-investments/?xid=tcoshare&utm_source=huffingtonpost.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=pubexchange_article" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; text-underline-offset: 0.25em; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Time</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;all found cases where Price took legislative action to help companies in which he was invested.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; text-underline-offset: 0.25em; margin: 1.6875rem 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">According to a source identified by ProPublica, former</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who was removed from his post by the Trump administration, was&nbsp;<a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/preet-bharara-fired-investigating-tom-price-hhs-stock-trading" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-underline-offset: 0.25em; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">overseeing an investigation</a>&nbsp;into Price's stock trades at the time of his dismissal.</span></font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">9/18</font></div><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></strong></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/right-wing/donald-trump-and-republicans-work-every-day-destroy-social-security-medicare-and-medicaid" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.alternet.org/right-wing/donald-trump-and-republicans-work-every-day-destroy-social-security-medicare-and-medicaid</a></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>during..</b>Trump’s campaign for president, he promised&nbsp;<a href="https://medium.com/senator-bernie-sanders/14-times-donald-trump-promised-not-to-cut-social-security-medicare-and-medicaid-99beefa9f584" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">over and over again</a>&nbsp;to protect Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Now, in the lead-up to the midterm elections, Trump is&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1037407341816283137" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">claiming</a>&nbsp;to have kept that promise. Completely in character for a president who doesn’t let a day go by without lying, he recently falsely claimed, “We’re saving Social Security, the Democrats will destroy Social Security. We’re saving Medicare. The Dems, you look at what they’re doing. They want to destroy Medicare.”</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s time to set the record straight. Far from keeping his word, Trump and his administration have spent every day since taking power working to destroy Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Here are 10 of the Trump administration’s worst attacks on the American people’s Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid:</b></font></p><div style="margin-bottom: 20px;"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>1. Trump nominated Congressman Mick Mulvaney</b>&nbsp;to be the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director. Mulvaney has a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/02/16/senators-confirm-trumps-pick-to-deal-with-the-federal-budget/?utm_term=.bb71f86660ad" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">long history</a>&nbsp;of working to destroy Social Security and Medicare. In 2011, he said, “We have to end Medicare as we know it.”</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Every single Republican senator&nbsp;<a href="https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=115&session=1&vote=00068" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">voted</a>&nbsp;to confirm Mulvaney, while every Democrat voted against.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2. Trump nominated</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Tom Price </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees Medicare.&nbsp;</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Price&nbsp;<a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/a-vote-for-tom-price-is-a-vote-to-destroy-medicare_us_589a2c11e4b0985224db5b06" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">has stated</a>&nbsp;that “We will not rest until we make certain that government-run health care [e.g., Medicare] is ended” and decried “the federal government’s intrusion into medicine through Medicare.”</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Every single Republican senator&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/02/10/us/politics/tom-price-confirmation-vote.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">voted</a>&nbsp;to confirm Price, while every Democrat present voted against. After less than a year on the job, Price was forced to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/us/politics/tom-price-trump-hhs.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">resign in disgrace</a>, and Trump replaced him with Alex Azar, a former pharmaceutical executive&nbsp;<a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/deadly-greed-alex-azar-must-not-be-confirmed_us_5a1c3bfbe4b0bf1467a84886" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">who tripled the price of insulin</a>.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">3. As soon as Trump took office, the Republican Party’s top priority was to take health care away from tens of millions of Americans. If “Trumpcare” had become law, it would have cut&nbsp;<a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trumpcares-880-billion-cut-to-medicaid-is-an-attack_us_58ca930be4b0537abd956e46" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">$880 billion</a>&nbsp;from Medicaid, creating a disaster for seniors who rely on Medicaid for long-term care. It would also have created a Medicare&nbsp;<a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-overlooked-trumpcare-threat-a-medicare-time-bomb_us_594d77cee4b0326c0a8d0845" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">time bomb</a>&nbsp;by starving the program of essential funding.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4. Trump’s 2018 budget proposal sought cuts of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rollcall.com/news/policy/trump-wants-800-billion-10-year-cut-entitlement-programs" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">$800 billion</a>&nbsp;to Medicaid and Social Security Disability Insurance over 10 years. When OMB Director Mulvaney was asked if these cuts would lead to fewer people receiving their earned Social Security disability benefits, he replied, “<a href="https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/mick-mulvaney-i-hope-fewer-people-social-security-disability-insurance" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">I hope so</a>.”</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">5. Republicans passed a massive tax giveaway to billionaires and corporations, which they are now using as an excuse to&nbsp;<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/republicans-voted-tax-bill-cut-medicare-social-security-pay-488a9bcbba7d/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">demand cuts</a>&nbsp;to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>6. Nearly every House Republican&nbsp;<a href="https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2018/roll138.xml" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none;">voted</a>&nbsp;for a so-called “Balanced Budget Amendment,<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">”</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;which would&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cbpp.org/blog/why-a-balanced-budget-amendment-would-harm-social-security-and-federal-deposit-insurance" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">make it unconstitutional</a>&nbsp;for Social Security to use its own $2.9 trillion trust fund to pay promised benefits. (Fortunately, the Amendment did not attain the two-thirds majority required for passage.)</span></font></p></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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According to disclosure records, her firm’s clients included a licensee of insurance giant Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Fresenius Medical Care, a German company that specializes in medical supplies for renal dialysis.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">Timothy Clark</strong>, a senior adviser to HHS Secretary Tom Price, ran his own political consulting firm in California. His&nbsp;<a href="http://clarkstrategygroup.com/current-and-past-clients/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;">past clients</a>&nbsp;included PhRMA, the powerful trade group that represents the pharmaceutical industry.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/keagan-lenihan-071b511/?locale=de_DE" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;">Keagan Lenihan</a></strong>, also a senior adviser to Price, was a director of government relations at McKesson Specialty Health, a firm that supports independent health providers. Disclosure&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/lobbyist.php?id=Y0000046788L&year=2016" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;">records</a>&nbsp;show Lenihan directly lobbied HHS. For Lenihan, the new post represents a return trip through the revolving door between government and the private sector, and a reunion with an old boss. Before registering as a lobbyist, she was a senior legislative assistant for Price, when the now-HHS secretary was in Congress.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Asked about the three HHS staffers, an agency spokeswoman said: “We are not confirming or commenting on personnel at this time.”</font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">...</font></div><div><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="93" data-total-count="13971" id="story-continues-20" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Department of Health and Human Services has become another source of potential conflicts.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="480" data-total-count="14451" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lance Leggitt, who serves as chief of staff to Tom Price, the health and human services secretary, worked last year as a lobbyist for 10 different health care companies, including&nbsp;<a href="https://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=getFilingDetails&filingID=C2FCBA31-9847-462D-9CE2-2D73B02653A8&filingTypeID=78">United States Medical Supply</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=getFilingDetails&filingID=09BA1985-07E1-4F2F-8C8C-90D786727348&filingTypeID=51">Advanced Infusion Services</a>. He focused largely on lobbying the agency related to&nbsp;<a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/medicare/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="Recent and archival health news about Medicare." class="meta-classifier">Medicare</a>&nbsp;billing rules, as well as rules for health care supplier accreditations, lobbying disclosure reports show. All these issues are routinely handled by the agency he helps oversee.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="602" data-total-count="15053" id="story-continues-21" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. Scott Gottlieb,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/03/10/president-donald-j-trump-announces-key-administration-post">the nominee</a>&nbsp;to lead the Food and Drug Administration, received&nbsp;<a href="https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/physician/89830/payment-information">more than $350,000</a>&nbsp;in payments in 2014 and 2015 from nearly a dozen different pharmaceutical companies, including Vertex Pharmaceuticals, whose two approved drugs are seen as breakthrough treatments for&nbsp;<a href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/cystic-fibrosis/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier">cystic fibrosis</a>. (They carry list prices of more than $250,000 a year.) Dr. Gottlieb, who has never been registered as a lobbyist but has&nbsp;<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0nzUxKc6zI2NDNMaTdremV4MDg/view">served as the director</a>&nbsp;of eight pharmaceutical companies and one laboratory company, wrote in a&nbsp;<a href="http://pfds.opensecrets.org.s3.amazonaws.com/N99999860_2016_EA.pdf">letter</a>&nbsp;that he was prepared to recuse himself as necessary to avoid any conflicts.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="87" data-total-count="15140" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Department of Health and Human Services did not respond to a request for a comment.</font></p></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://thinkprogress.org/reporter-arrested-for-asking-tom-price-if-domestic-violence-is-a-pre-existing-condition-under-59ec774321d2" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://thinkprogress.org/reporter-arrested-for-asking-tom-price-if-domestic-violence-is-a-pre-existing-condition-under-59ec774321d2</a></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A&nbsp;<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" em="em">&nbsp;</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" em="em">reporter has been arrested for pressing Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price to say whether or not the Trump health care bill would make it harder for domestic violence survivors to obtain insurance.</span></font></div><p name="891d" id="891d" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" em="em" color="color" rgba="rgba" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); --baseline-multiplier:0.179;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">West Virginia police arrested Dan Heyman at the state capitol Tuesday as he walked with Price and White House adviser Kellyanne Conway, holding a recorder out and asking Price repeatedly about claims that insurers could refuse to serve survivors of familial abuse. That claim is based on inference from the bill’s provision allowing states to abandon consumer protections from Obamacare with federal permission.</font></p><p name="c449" id="c449" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" em="em" color="color" rgba="rgba" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); --baseline-multiplier:0.179;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Heyman had sought out Price on his way into the capitol.</font></p><p name="4ba2" id="4ba2" class="graf graf--p graf--startsWithDoubleQuote graf-after--p" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" em="em" text-indent="text-indent" color="color" rgba="rgba" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); --baseline-multiplier:0.179;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“At some point, I think [they]&nbsp;<a href="http://wvmetronews.com/2017/05/10/reporter-arrested-at-capitol-after-trying-to-ask-u-s-health-secretary-questions/" data-href="http://wvmetronews.com/2017/05/10/reporter-arrested-at-capitol-after-trying-to-ask-u-s-health-secretary-questions/" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: transparent; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.44); background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px 1.07em;">decided I was too persistent</a>&nbsp;in asking this question and trying to do my job, so they arrested me,” Heyman told West Virginia Metro News. Heyman was later charged with “willful disruption of a governmental process,” according to the news service.</font></p><p name="99fa" id="99fa" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" em="em" color="color" rgba="rgba" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); --baseline-multiplier:0.179;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A police report justifying the charge said the reporter “was aggressively breaching the Secret Service agents” and “causing a disturbance by yelling questions at Ms. Conway and Secretary Price,” the West Virginia Metro News reported. Heyman was only released after someone from his news agency posted a $5,000 bond. He faces a $100 fine and up to six months in jail under state la</font></p><p name="99fa" id="99fa" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" em="em" color="color" rgba="rgba" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); --baseline-multiplier:0.179;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">pro p</font></div><div><h2 style="margin: 25px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Swamp denizens, including health care lobbyists hired by HHS Secretary Tom Price</font></h2><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">Alexandra Campau</strong>, hired at the department of Health and Human Services, was formerly&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/lobbyist.php?id=Y0000048211L&year=2014" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">a lobbyist</a>&nbsp;in Washington for the law firm Cozen O’Connor. According to disclosure records, her firm’s clients included a licensee of insurance giant Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Fresenius Medical Care, a German company that specializes in medical supplies for renal dialysis.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">Timothy Clark</strong>, a senior adviser to HHS Secretary Tom Price, ran his own political consulting firm in California. His&nbsp;<a href="http://clarkstrategygroup.com/current-and-past-clients/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">past clients</a>&nbsp;included PhRMA, the powerful trade group that represents the pharmaceutical industry.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/keagan-lenihan-071b511/?locale=de_DE" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">Keagan Lenihan</a></strong>, also a senior adviser to Price, was a director of government relations at McKesson Specialty Health, a firm that supports independent health providers. Disclosure&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/lobbyist.php?id=Y0000046788L&year=2016" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">records</a>&nbsp;show Lenihan directly lobbied HHS. For Lenihan, the new post represents a return trip through the revolving door between government and the private sector, and a reunion with an old boss. Before registering as a lobbyist, she was a senior legislative assistant for Price, when the now-HHS secretary was in Congress.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Asked about the three HHS staffers, an agency spokeswoman said: “We are not confirming or commenting on personnel at this time.”</font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Attorney General Jeff Sessions should explain whether the firing of U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara had anything to do with Bharara’s reported probe into stock trades by Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, three Democratic U.S. senators said Tuesday.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Price came under scrutiny during his confirmation hearings for investments he made while serving in Congress — including hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of shares in health-related companies, even as he voted on and sponsored legislation affecting the industry.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In&nbsp;<a href="https://www.warren.senate.gov/files/documents/2017_03_28%20_Sessions_Letter_on_Preet_firing.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration: none;">their letter</a>&nbsp;to Sessions, Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Jeff Merkley and Richard Blumenthal referred to a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/preet-bharara-fired-investigating-tom-price-hhs-stock-trading" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration: none;">ProPublica</a>story, which cited a person familiar with the office as saying that Bharara was overseeing an investigation of Price’s actions. They asked whether Sessions, President Trump or other officials in the Justice Department or White House were aware of such a probe before they removed Bharara, the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bharara was one of 46 U.S. attorneys asked to resign after Trump took office. It is not unusual for new presidents to replace federal prosecutors with their own appointees, but Bharara’s firing came as a surprise because the president had met with him at Trump Tower soon after the election. After that meeting, Bharara told reporters Trump asked if he would be prepared to remain in his post, and said that he had agreed to stay on.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After his dismissal, Bharara fanned suspicions that the move was politically motivated via his personal Twitter account....</font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">:<b>&nbsp;Tom Price</b>
Cabinet Title:&nbsp;<b>Secretary of Health and Human Services</b>
Corporate Connections:&nbsp;<b>Innate Immunotherapeutics, Pfizer</b>
</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">U.S. Rep. Tom Price, a wealthy physician-turned-Republican congressman from Georgia, opposed the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare) and favors options to privatize Medicare. He recently became the target of questions surrounding stock trades he made in health care stocks while he was introducing legislation that could affect those companies. (Public Citizen has called for an investigation.) If confirmed as the head of the Department of Health and Human Services, Price would be the presumptive point person within the executive branch to work with Republican leaders in Congress on their promised effort to repeal Obamacare.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><ul style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10.5px 25px;"><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 21px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Price, whose net worth has been estimated between $7 million and $13.5 million, has extensive stock holdings. Although most of these are in diversified funds, he does own stock in some individual companies, including some that fall under the purview of HHS. &nbsp;He traded more than $300,000 in health care stocks over four years while he was consistently introducing legislation that could affect those companies, according to the Wall Street Journal. These included purchases in August 2016 of between $50,000 and $100,000 in shares of an Australian firm that is testing a drug to treat an advanced form of multiple sclerosis. The stock of that company, Innate Immunotherapeutics, has doubled in value since Price purchased it. Price bought the stock two days after U.S. Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.) purchased between $500,000 and $1 million of the company’s stock. Collins serves on Immuno’s board.
</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 21px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Physician specialists have made more than $3 million in contributions to Price since he won election to Congress in 2004. These include more than $900,000 &nbsp;in contributions from orthopedic surgeons, Price’s personal medical specialty.</b>
</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 21px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Of $15 million that Price has received in campaign contributions throughout his career, 45 percent has come from political action committees (PACs). These include cumulative contributions of more than $50,000 each from the American Medical Association, American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons, American College of Cardiology and several other health care trade associations.
</font></li><li style="line-height: 21px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The organization funneling the most contributions to Price in 2016 has been MiMedx, which makes regenerative wound care products and is involved in a dispute with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that could jeopardize its ability to market a product that provides more &nbsp;than 10 percent of its revenue. MiMedx’s PAC has given $10,000 this cycle and its employees directly gave an additional $11,800.</font></li></ul><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://corporatecabinet.org/</font></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://medcitynews.com/2016/12/controversy-hhs-pick-tom-price/">http://medcitynews.com/2016/12/controversy-hhs-pick-tom-price/</a></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0.625rem 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There is more controversy brewing&nbsp;about Rep. Tom Price (R-Georgia), whom President-elect Donald Trump intends to nominate for secretary of the Department of Human Services.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0.625rem 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The&nbsp;<a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trumps-pick-for-health-secretary-traded-medical-stocks-while-in-house-1482451061" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 0px 1px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.25s ease; line-height: inherit; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(241, 241, 242);">Wall Street Journal is reporting</a>&nbsp;on some potentially serious&nbsp;conflicts of interest in Price’s personal stock portfolio. Price, the newspaper said, has traded upwards of $300,000 worth of shares in about 40 healthcare and life sciences companies in just the last four years.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0.625rem 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The time frame is important. In 2012, Congress passed and President Barack Obama signed the&nbsp;Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act in the wake of “abusive” share trading by several lawmakers,&nbsp;according to the Journal.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0.625rem 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The law effectively banned insider trading by members of Congress and their staff. It also required legislators to report any personal stock transactions within 45 days.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0.625rem 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Price has held shares in pharma companies Amgen, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly & Co. and Pfizer, as well as health insurer Aetna. All are&nbsp;regulated in one way or another by HHS agencies.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0.625rem 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">He also has owned stock in Google parent Alphabet, which&nbsp;includes subsidiary&nbsp;<a href="http://medcitynews.com/tag/verily/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 0px 1px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.25s ease; line-height: inherit; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(241, 241, 242);">Verily</a>&nbsp;— formerly known as Google Life Sciences, the Journal reported. Another holding has been tobacco company Altria, which not only is a curious&nbsp;choice for a physician like Price, it is regulated by the Food and Drug Administration under the HHS umbrella.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0.625rem 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">According to the Journal, Price’s largest single purchase in that time was&nbsp;an investment of at least<b> $50,000 in&nbsp;Innate Immunotherapeutics. The biggest&nbsp;shareholder — and a board member — of that Australian company is&nbsp;Rep. Chris Collins (R-New York), who happens to be on Trump’s transition team.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0.625rem 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Innate Immuno’s share price has doubled since Price bought a stake in August, the Journal said, though it is still a penny stock.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0.625rem 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Price&nbsp;does not have to divest himself from any healthcare-related company should he be confirmed as HHS secretary.&nbsp;According to the Journal, he would at least have to recuse himself from decisions&nbsp;related to such companies, though that requirement does have some gray areas about which HHS activities&nbsp;be relevant.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0.625rem 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Price, an orthopedic surgeon, also has been backed by healthcare companies while in Congress. The story noted:</font></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1.125rem 1.25rem 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.11111rem; line-height: 1.6; font-style: italic; border-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.498039); border-width: 1px 0px; min-height: 45px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-style: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The healthcare industry is Mr. Price’s biggest patron. In 2015 and 2016, he received about $730,000 in campaign donations from health professionals, insurers and drug companies, more than from any other industry, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0.625rem 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-style: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Over his six terms, he has raised about $15 million, and about $4.8 million came from the health sector. Insurer Aetna donated a total of $10,000 to Mr. Price in 2015 and 2016 through its PAC. Pfizer, the drug giant, donated $3,500 through its PAC. Eli Lilly gave $5,000.</font></p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0.625rem 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Does any of this matter? Comments on the story were mixed, though one critic blamed the “democrat [<em style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: inherit;">sic</em>] controlled media,” even though the Wall Street Journal &nbsp;is owned by News Corp.,&nbsp;part of conservative Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0.625rem 0px 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A more thoughtful commenter offered this: “According to the ‘rules’ that members of Congress have to live by, Price did nothing wrong. Most Americans would consider what he and most other members of Congress are allowed to do to be unethical, but it’s not, until we push the members of Congress to live by the kind of ethical rules that the majority of Americans live by. The ball is in our court to force a change because the members of Congress are not going to do it with pressure from us.”</font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span tiempos="Tiempos" text="Text" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">A congressman and physician, Price&nbsp;</span><a href="http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2016/11/28/sources-tom-price-close-to-being-named-top-health-official-in-donald-trumps-cabinet/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgba(185, 97, 77, 0.498039); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;" tiempos="Tiempos" text="Text" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-decoration="text-decoration" none="none" color="color" rgb="rgb" transition="transition" s="s" background-color="background-color">has been a strong opponent of Obamacare</a><span tiempos="Tiempos" text="Text" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;since its inception and has proposed&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/tom-price-radically-conservative-healthcare-vision-231965" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgba(185, 97, 77, 0.498039); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;" tiempos="Tiempos" text="Text" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-decoration="text-decoration" none="none" color="color" rgb="rgb" transition="transition" s="s" background-color="background-color">restructuring Medicaid and Medicare</a><span tiempos="Tiempos" text="Text" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">.&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.nbc-2.com/story/34033182/trumps-health-secretary-pick-has-long-record-of-service-to-doctors" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgba(185, 97, 77, 0.498039); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;" tiempos="Tiempos" text="Text" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-decoration="text-decoration" none="none" color="color" rgb="rgb" transition="transition" s="s" background-color="background-color">Kaiser Health News reports</a><span tiempos="Tiempos" text="Text" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;he has sponsored legislation that shields doctors from lawsuits and limits the data doctors must submit to a database hospitals use to make hiring decisions. He is&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.statnews.com/2016/12/02/trump-price-birth-control/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgba(185, 97, 77, 0.498039); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;" tiempos="Tiempos" text="Text" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-decoration="text-decoration" none="none" color="color" rgb="rgb" transition="transition" s="s" background-color="background-color">a strong opponent</a><span tiempos="Tiempos" text="Text" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;of Planned Parenthood and abortion, and once&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_mu8CS0aWA" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgba(185, 97, 77, 0.498039); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;" tiempos="Tiempos" text="Text" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-decoration="text-decoration" none="none" color="color" rgb="rgb" transition="transition" s="s" background-color="background-color">claimed</a><span tiempos="Tiempos" text="Text" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;he did not know of a single woman who couldn’t afford birth control.</span></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font><div><div class="entry-content" style="margin: 5px 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Unsuccessful GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/11/15/ben" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">declared</a>&nbsp;Tuesday that he has no interest in a position in the Trump cabinet and instead wants to serve the administration as an outside advisor because he doesn’t have any governing experience.</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The former neurosurgeon was a leading contender to head the Health and Human Services Department or the Education Department in the new regime next year. And as the budget committees in the both chambers of Congress&nbsp;<a href="http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/politico-pulse/2016/11/senate-house-budget-chairman-back-double-reconciliation-plan-217444" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">plan</a>&nbsp;to swiftly pass a reconciliation bill that they say will repeal Obamacare, the jockeying to be named the official who will help shape a replacement bill and Trump’s other health care policies is being closely monitored.</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But one thing seems pretty certain at the point: The fate of the Affordable Care Act looks dim under any of the rumored health secretaries.</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Rep.&nbsp;</b><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00026160&cycle=2016" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;"><b>Tom Price</b></a><b>&nbsp;(R-Ga.)</b>: Shortly after Carson announced he won’t be serving in the Trump cabinet,&nbsp;<em>Politico</em>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/tom-price-health-human-services-trump-231427" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">reported</a>&nbsp;the Georgia Republican is being considered for the top Health and Human Services spot.</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Price was an early Trump loyalist and has been a leading promoter of the Trump’s rally to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. But his anti-Obamacare movement goes way back to the 111<span style="line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">th</span>&nbsp;Congress in 2009 when he sponsored the Empowering Patients First Act as an alternative to the current Obamacare’s predecessor, America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009. Price introduced the bill again in 2015 as&nbsp;<a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/230" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">H.R. 2300</a>, but the legislation hasn’t seen much action yet.</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Currently the House Budget Committee chair and also a member of the Subcommittee on Health under the House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Price has raised a total of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cycle=Career&type=I&cid=N00026160&newMem=N" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">$15 million</a>&nbsp;in campaign contributions over the past decade, nearly a third&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/industries.php?cycle=Career&cid=N00026160&type=I" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">($4.8 million</a>) of which came from individuals and political actions committees in the health sector.</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Given his past as an orthopedic surgeon, it’s no surprise that Price’s top donors throughout his career are in a similar line of work: Resurgens Orthopaedics, the American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons and Peachtree Orthopaedic Clinic.</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Before he took office in Congress in 2005, Price contributed a total of $22,565 to the Republican Party of Georgia and a number of GOP candidates, including former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">His leadership PAC&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00409805" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Voice for Freedom</a>&nbsp;donated a total of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgot.php?cycle=2016&cmte=C00409805" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">$292,500</a>&nbsp;to House and Senate Republican candidates this year, but none to Trump.</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Gov. Rick Scott</b>: The second-term Florida governor built and ran the biggest hospital empire in the United States until 1997 when he&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/26/business/2-leaders-are-out-at-health-giant-as-inquiry-goes-on.html" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">resigned</a>&nbsp;amid a criminal inquiry of the company.</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Investigations revealed that Columbia/HCA (Hospital Corporation of America) had been systematically overcharging the government for reimbursements,&nbsp;filing false reports, making illegal deals with heath care agencies and providing doctors with illegal loans. In 2002, the government reached a settlement with HCA and its subsidiaries totaling $1.7 billion, the largest amount ever paid to the feds in a health care investigation.</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Scott played an essential part in the president-elect’s victory by&nbsp;<a href="http://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2016/07/rick-scott-to-chair-pro-trump-super-pac-104308" target="blank" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">running</a>&nbsp;one of the biggest&nbsp;pro-Trump super PACs,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/detail.php?cmte=C00618876&cycle=2016" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Rebuilding America Now</a>. Backed by Californian real estate developer Geoffrey Palmer and coal mining giant Murray Energy Corporation, this outside group spent over $19 million on ads attacking Hillary Clinton and supporting Trump this cycle.</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to campaign finance data compiled by the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.followthemoney.org/" target="blank" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">National Institute on Money in State Politics</a>, Scott has raised&nbsp;<a href="http://followthemoney.org/show-me?f-fc=2,3&c-t-eid=422306#%5B%7B1%7Cgro=d-ccg" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">$84.4 million</a>&nbsp;in campaign contributions since 2010, 71.4 percent of which came from his own pocket.</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Scott wrote checks totaling&nbsp;<a href="http://followthemoney.org/show-me?f-fc=2,3&c-t-eid=422306&d-ccg=17#%5B%7B1%7Cgro=d-ccg,d-id" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">$60.3 million</a>&nbsp;to his own campaign in his first gubernatorial race six years ago. Outside of that, he managed to raise only about&nbsp;<a href="http://followthemoney.org/show-me?c-t-eid=422306&c-t-id=127050#%5B%7B1%7Cgro=d-ccg" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">$7.1 million</a>&nbsp;for his campaign, while his Democratic opponent raised&nbsp;<a href="http://followthemoney.org/show-me?c-t-eid=149964&c-t-id=65348#%5B%7B1%7Cgro=d-ccg" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">$17.5 million</a>.</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">His rival also got more financial support from individuals and PACs in the health sector that election, receiving&nbsp;<a href="http://followthemoney.org/show-me?c-t-id=65348&d-ccg=8#%5B%7B1%7Cgro=d-id" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">$626,112</a>&nbsp;when Scott only received&nbsp;<a href="http://followthemoney.org/show-me?c-t-id=127050&d-ccg=8#%5B%7B1%7Cgro=d-id" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">$125,537</a>&nbsp;from the sector.</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Overall, though, the health sector’s gifts to the governor over the years total up to&nbsp;<a href="http://followthemoney.org/show-me?f-fc=2,3&c-t-eid=422306#%5B%7B1%7Cgro=d-ccg" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">$666,381</a>, the second biggest sum after the finance sector’s $1.8 million.</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Scott himself has donated $160,000 to the Republican party and candidates over the years, including $10,000 to GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney in 2012. And he maxed out at $5,400 to Florida Rep. Francis Rooney (R), who won Florida’s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/races/summary.php?cycle=2016&id=FL19" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">19th Congressional District</a>&nbsp;last week.</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The former healthcare mogul has long been an ardent opponent of the Affordable Care Act, so much that he started a 501(c)(4) social welfare nonprofit in 2009 called&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/political-nonprofits/summary?id=264543027" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Conservatives for Patients’ Rights</a>, which spent over $10 million in two years to rally against the overhaul.</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Gov. Bobby Jindal</b>: The former Louisiana congressman and current governor is not quite like some other Trump loyalists. In an&nbsp;<a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/im-voting-trump-warts-and-all-1462739009" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">op-ed</a>&nbsp;for the Wall Street Journal earlier this year, he called the president-elect a “narcissist” and an “egomaniacal madman.”</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But then he continued, “I think electing Donald Trump would be the second-worst thing we could do this November, better only than electing Hillary Clinton to serve as the third term for the Obama administration’s radical policies,” concluding the article with an endorsement for Trump.</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jindal, who ran the Louisiana Health and Hospitals Department in his mid-20s, holds a number of titles: the youngest president of the University of Louisiana System, the second Indian American in Congress, the first Indian American governor in the U.S., and the second youngest governor of Louisiana. He is no stranger to the federal Health and Human Services Department either, as he was an assistant secretary there early in President George W. Bush’s administration.<strong>
</strong></font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">From 2005 to 2007 as a member of the House, Jindal raised a total of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cycle=Career&type=I&cid=N00026786&newMem=N" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">$4.6 million</a>in contributions. He garnered the most financial support from individuals and PACs in the health sector, who donated a total of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/industries.php?cycle=Career&cid=N00026786&type=I" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">$728,772</a>. This&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/industries.php?cycle=Career&cid=N00026786&type=I" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">includes</a>&nbsp;$413,195 from health professionals, $121,641 from the pharmaceuticals industry, $105,750 from hospitals and $83,131 from the health services industry.</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During his one unsuccessful Louisiana gubernatorial campaign in 2003 and two subsequent successful campaigns, he raised a total of&nbsp;<a href="http://followthemoney.org/show-me?f-fc=2,3&c-t-eid=6613013" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">$35.2 million</a>. The health sector again topped contributions by giving&nbsp;<a href="http://followthemoney.org/show-me?f-fc=2,3&c-t-eid=6613013&d-ccg=8#%5B%7B1%7Cgro=d-id" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">$1.9 million</a>&nbsp;over the years, closely followed by the finance sector, including&nbsp;$37,500 from nursing care provider&nbsp;Magnolia Management and $20,000 from Louisiana Hospital Association.</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During the brief period he ran for the presidency this election cycle, his campaign collected&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/candidate.php?id=N00026786" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">$1.4 million</a>&nbsp;contributions; outside groups, including his single-candidate super PAC&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00571711" target="blank" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Believe Again,</a>&nbsp;raised and spent about $4.5 million on his behalf. At the presidential level, the energy and natural resources sector gave the most to Jindal’s campaign and pro-Jindal outside groups, totaling&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/industries?cycle=2016&id=N00026786&src=t&type=f" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">$1.4 million</a>. Health professionals still gave the most direct in contributions to his campaign (<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/industries?cycle=2016&id=N00026786&src=c&type=f" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">$74,451</a>).</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Louisiana oil industry boatbuilder Gary Chouest, whose company&nbsp;Edison Chouest Offshore was awarded the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bobby-jindals-biggest-donors-benefited-from-his-administration_us_55e9e976e4b002d5c075fb17" target="blank" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">very first contract</a>&nbsp;with the state government after Jindal took office in 2008, donated $1 million to Believe Again this cycle.&nbsp;The longtime Jindal supporter has donated a total of $16,900&nbsp;to his state and federal&nbsp;campaigns over the years.</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Social welfare group&nbsp;<a href="https://opensecrets.org/pacs/indexpend.php?cycle=2016&cmte=C90015439" target="blank" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">America Next</a>&nbsp;also spent $392,648 in “independent expenditures” supporting Jindal for his brief presidential campaign last year; the nonprofit is chaired by Jindal. As a 501(c)(4) group, America Next does not disclose donors, but a&nbsp;<a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/11/17/drug-lobby-gave-thousands-to-pro-bobby-jindal-nonprofit.html" target="blank" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">tax filing</a>&nbsp;obtained by the&nbsp;<em>Center for Public Integrity</em>&nbsp;shows the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America donated&nbsp;<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2514765-phrma-form-990-for-2014-select-schedules.html#document/p25/a261984" target="blank" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">$50,000</a>&nbsp;last year to the pro-Jindal group.</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">(America Next and Believe Again also seem to have shared a common consultant, as they paid $781,572 and $2.6 million each to vendor&nbsp;<a href="https://opensecrets.org/expends/vendor.php?year=2016&vendor=ONMESSAGE+INC." target="blank" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">OnMessage Inc.</a>, run by Jindal campaign’s chief strategist and senior GOP fundraiser&nbsp;<a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/bobby-jindal-2016-campaign-staff-power-players-119372" target="blank" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Curt Anderson</a>.)<strong>
</strong></font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Another strong critic of the Affordable Care Act, the governor is known for helping&nbsp;<a href="http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/collection_e7a4e526-aba1-11e6-be08-7309f702c6ec.html#1" target="blank" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">privatize</a>&nbsp;hospitals and Medicaid in Louisiana over the years.</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Mike Huckabee</b>: Having&nbsp;<a href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/07/mike-huckabee-donald-trump-2016-convention-if-you-cant-support-trump-you-dont-deserve-a-microphone-214031" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">blasted</a>&nbsp;Florida Sen. Ted Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich for not endorsing Trump and saying they don’t deserve a microphone, the former Arkansas governor would in some ways seem ripe to be rewarded with a cabinet slot in the new administration.</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Not surprisingly, Huckabee has also advocated for&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17hwDVymJhU" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">repealing</a>&nbsp;the Affordable Care Act, calling for an expansion in the employer-based healthcare system instead.</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><em>OpenSecrets Blog</em>&nbsp;could not obtain campaign finance&nbsp;information from Huckabee’s first gubernatorial election in 1998 (it was not available electronically). But for his re-election campaign in 2002, Huckabee collected about&nbsp;<a href="http://followthemoney.org/show-me?f-fc=2,3&c-t-eid=6578217" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">$2.5 million</a>&nbsp;in contributions, including&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://followthemoney.org/show-me?f-fc=2,3&c-t-eid=6578217#%5B%7B1%7Cgro=d-ccg" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">$267,380</a>&nbsp;from the health sector. Nursing care provider NHS Management LLC and the Arkansas Hospital Association were among his biggest&nbsp;<a href="http://followthemoney.org/show-me?f-fc=2,3&c-t-eid=6578217&d-ccg=8#%5B%7B1%7Cgro=d-id" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">health sector donors</a>, giving $5,000 and $4,000 each.</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Arkansas Republican raised&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/summary.php?cid=N00007539&cycle=2008" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">$16 million</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/candidate?id=N00007539" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">$4.3</a>&nbsp;million respectively in his unsuccessful presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2016. He received the biggest support from the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/industries?cycle=2016&id=N00007539&src=c&type=f" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">finance sector</a>&nbsp;in both years, though the health sector also was among his big contributors.</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Outside groups including&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgave2.php?cycle=2016&cmte=C00573923" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Pursuing America’s Greatness</a>&nbsp;raised about $6 million to support of Huckabee in this election, including&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/contributors?id=N00007539" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">$3 million</a>&nbsp;from Ronald Cameron, a big political donor in Arkansas and the&nbsp;owner of poultry giant Mountainaire Corp.</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cameron donated a total of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.php?&name=ronald%20cameron&employ=&cand=&state=AR&cycle=2016&soft=&zip=&sort=R&page=1" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">$6.7 million</a>&nbsp;this election cycle, including direct contributions of $2,700 to Huckabee, $5,400 to Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and — yes! — $8,100 to Donald Trump.</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Huckabee and his wife Janet personally have given more than $61,050 to a number of candidates over the years, including $2,700 to Republican Mark Harris this cycle, who didn’t make it past the primary in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/races/candidates.php?cycle=2016&id=NC09&spec=N" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">North Carolina’s 9th District</a>.</font></p></div><footer class="entry-meta" style="line-height: 15px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Trump’s likely pick to head the Health and Human Services Administration, Georgia Rep. Tom Price,</b> is one more indication that not a single word that comes out of Trump’s mouth can be believed. It is also yet another sign that his administration will be an unfolding horror show of the most extremist right-wing hucksters intent on dismantling America’s safety net and moral standing in the world.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Price is an ultra-conservative Tea Partying congressman and orthopedic surgeon who has been at the forefront of the fight to dismantle Obamacare ever since the Affordable Care Act came into being.</b> Remember, just a few short weeks ago, Trump met with President Obama and said afterward that he might keep at least aspects of Obamacare after all. Not with Price as his pointman.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As chair of the House Budget Committee, Price opposed the ACA rabidly, claiming, “Congressional Democrats and the Obama administration blatantly ignored the voices of the American people and rammed through a hyperpartisan piece of legislation that will have a disastrous effect on our nation’s health care system,” according to the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/28/us/politics/tom-price-secretary-health-and-human-services.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=a-lede-package-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&r=0" style="text-decoration: none;">New York Times</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Little surprise that the foregone conclusions he predicted have proven true at least in his mind.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Premiums have gone up, not down. Many Americans lost the health coverage they were told time and time again by the president that they could keep. Choices are fewer,” he told the Times.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">His alternative, the misleadingly named Empowering Patients First Act,&nbsp;is the<b> usual privatizer’s combination of tax credits and health savings accounts, an absurd concept for the poor and the struggling middle class. Those with pre-existing conditions merit nary a mention in his plan.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But there are even more terrifying reasons to fear the notion of Price running the huge health and social service bureaucracy with </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">a close to $1 trillion budget that is supposed to serve not just doctors but patients—in other words, the public.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Price is keen, along with Paul Ryan, to dismantle Medicare, and recently told&nbsp;<a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-hhs-pick-said-medicare-phaseout-would-pass-next-summer" style="text-decoration: none;">Talking Points Memo</a>&nbsp;this goal might be accomplished in six to eight months. (Because, first Obamacare.) &nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He has also supported efforts to block funding for <b>Planned Parenthood, spreading outright lies about the services it provides.</b> And he is a critic of the Supreme Court decision guaranteeing the right to same-sex marriage, not on medical grounds (since there are none), but because that’s who he is.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senator Charles Schumer called the potential appointment of Price to head the HHS “akin to asking the fox to guard the henhouse.” He told the Times: “Congressman Price has proven to be far out of the mainstream of what Americans want when it comes to&nbsp;<a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/medicare/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="Recent and archival health news about Medicare." style="text-decoration: none;">Medicare</a>, the Affordable Care Act and Planned Parenthood. Thanks to those three programs, millions of American seniors, families, people with disabilities and women have access to quality, affordable health care.”&nbsp;</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Thomas Edmunds "Tom" Price</b>&nbsp;(born October 8, 1954) is an American physician and politician who is the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">U.S. Representative</a>&nbsp;for&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia%27s_6th_congressional_district" title="Georgia's 6th congressional district" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Georgia's 6th congressional district</a>, serving since 2005. A member of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Republican_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Republican Party" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Republican Party</a>, Price's district serves the northern suburbs of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta" title="Atlanta" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Atlanta</a>. He previously served as chairman of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Study_Committee" title="Republican Study Committee" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Republican Study Committee</a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Policy_Committee_Chairman_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" class="mw-redirect" title="Republican Policy Committee Chairman of the United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Republican Policy Committee</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Hill_1-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-The_Hill-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Peach_Pundit_2-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-Peach_Pundit-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup>&nbsp;Price currently serves as chairman of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Budget_Committee" class="mw-redirect" title="House Budget Committee" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">House Budget Committee</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On November 29, 2016 it was announced that Price would be nominated for&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Health_and_Human_Services" title="United States Secretary of Health and Human Services" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Secretary of Health and Human Services</a>&nbsp;in the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_transition_of_Donald_Trump" title="Presidential transition of Donald Trump" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">coming administration</a>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President-elect_of_the_United_States" title="President-elect of the United States" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">President-elect</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Donald Trump</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1;"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><h2 style="background: none; 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cursor: pointer;">hide</a>]&nbsp;</span></div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#Early_life.2C_education.2C_and_medical_career" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Early life, education, and medical career</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#Georgia_Senate.281996.E2.80.932005.29" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Georgia Senate (1996–2005)</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#Elections" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Elections</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#Committee_assignments" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Committee assignments</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#U.S.House_of_Representatives.282005.E2.80.93present.29" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">U.S. House of Representatives (2005–present)</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#Elections_2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Elections</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#Tenure" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Tenure</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#Legislation" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Legislation</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#109th_Congress.282005.E2.80.932006.29" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.3.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">109th Congress (2005–2006)</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#110th_Congress.282007.E2.80.932008.29" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.3.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">110th Congress (2007–2008)</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#111th_Congress.282009.E2.80.932010.29" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.3.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">111th Congress (2009–2010)</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#112th_Congress.282011.E2.80.932012.29" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.3.4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">112th Congress (2011–2012)</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#113th_Congress.282013.E2.80.932014.29" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.3.5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">113th Congress (2013–2014)</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#Committee_assignments_2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Committee assignments</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#Membership_in_a_political_medical_organization" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Membership in a political medical organization</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#Personal_life" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Personal life</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#See_also" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">6</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">See also</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-18" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">7</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-19" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">8</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">External links</span></font></a></li></ul></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: " linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_life.2C_education.2C_and_medical_career">Early life, education, and medical career</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tom_Price(U.S.politician)&action=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Early life, education, and medical career" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Price was born in the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan" title="Michigan" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Michigan</a>&nbsp;capital,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lansing" class="mw-redirect" title="Lansing" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Lansing</a>. He grew up in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dearborn,Michigan" title="Dearborn, Michigan" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Dearborn</a>, where he attended Adams Jr. High and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dearborn_High_School" title="Dearborn High School" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Dearborn High School</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">He graduated with an&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_Medicine" title="Doctor of Medicine" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">M.D.</a>&nbsp;from the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Michigan_Health_System" title="University of Michigan Health System" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">University of Michigan Health System</a>. He completed his residency at&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emory_University" title="Emory University" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Emory University</a>&nbsp;in Atlanta, and decided to settle in the suburb of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell,Georgia" title="Roswell, Georgia" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Roswell</a>, where he still lives. He is a past President of the Roswell&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_Club" class="mw-redirect" title="Rotary Club" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Rotary Club</a>&nbsp;and has served on the Boards of the North Fulton&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamber_of_Commerce" class="mw-redirect" title="Chamber of Commerce" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Chamber of Commerce</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He ran an orthopedic clinic in Atlanta for 20 years before returning to Emory as assistant professor of orthopedic surgery. Price also was the director of the orthopedic clinic at Atlanta's&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grady_Memorial_Hospital" title="Grady Memorial Hospital" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Grady Memorial Hospital</a>.</font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: " linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Georgia_Senate.281996.E2.80.932005.29">Georgia Senate (1996–2005)</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tom_Price(U.S.politician)&action=edit&section=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Georgia Senate (1996–2005)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: none; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Elections">Elections</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tom_Price(U.S.politician)&action=edit&section=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Elections" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 1996, State Senator Sallie Newbill (R) decided not to run for re-election. Price was the Republican nominee for Georgia's 56th senate district. In the November general election, he defeated Democrat Ellen Milholland 71%–29%.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup>&nbsp;In 1998, he won re-election to a second term by defeating her in a rematch, 75%–25%.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup>&nbsp;In 2000 and 2002, he won re-election to a third and fourth term unopposed.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: none; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Committee_assignments">Committee assignments</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tom_Price(U.S.politician)&action=edit&section=4&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Committee assignments" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Administrative Affairs</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Appropriations</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Economic Development and Tourism (Vice Chair)</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Education<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ethics</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Insurance and Labor</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Health and Human Services</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reapportionment</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reapportionment and Redistricting (Chair)</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rules (Secretary)</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Veterans and Consumer Affairs<sup id="cite_ref-senate.ga.gov_11-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-senate.ga.gov-11" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[11]</a></sup></font></li></ul><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: " linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="U.S.House_of_Representatives.282005.E2.80.93present.29">U.S. House of Representatives (2005–present)</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tom_Price(U.S.politician)&action=edit&section=5&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: U.S. House of Representatives (2005–present)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: none; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Elections_2">Elections</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tom_Price(U.S.politician)&action=edit&section=6&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Elections" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2004</font></dt></dl><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 2004, U.S. Congressman&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Isakson" title="Johnny Isakson" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Johnny Isakson</a>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia%27s_6th_congressional_district" title="Georgia's 6th congressional district" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Georgia's 6th congressional district</a>&nbsp;decided not to run for re-election in order to run for the U.S. Senate. No&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Democrat</a>even filed, meaning that whoever won the Republican primary would be virtually assured of being the district's next congressman. The 6th district was so heavily Republican that any Democratic candidate would have faced nearly impossible odds in any event. Six other Republican candidates filed to run, most notably state senators Robert Lamutt and Chuck Clay. Price was the only major candidate from&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_County,Georgia" title="Fulton County, Georgia" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Fulton County</a>, while Lamutt and Clay were both from&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobb_County" class="mw-redirect" title="Cobb County" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Cobb County</a>. On July 20, 2004, Price ranked first with 35% of the vote, but failed to reach the 50% threshold needed to win the Republican nomination. Lamutt qualified for the run-off, ranking second with 28% of the vote. Price won two of the district's three counties:&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_County,Georgia" title="Fulton County, Georgia" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Fulton</a>&nbsp;with 63% and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_County,Georgia" title="Cherokee County, Georgia" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Cherokee</a>&nbsp;with 35%. Lamutt carried&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobb_County,Georgia" title="Cobb County, Georgia" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Cobb</a>&nbsp;with 31% of the vote.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup>&nbsp;In the August 10 run-off election, Price defeated Lamutt 54%–46%. They split the vote in Cherokee, but Price carried Fulton by a landslide of 79% of the vote. Lamutt couldn't eliminate that deficit as he won Cobb with just 59% of the vote.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[13]</a></sup>&nbsp;Price won the general election unopposed.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup></font></p><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2006</font></dt></dl><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 2006, Price drew one primary challenger, John Konop, who he easily defeated 82%–18%.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup>&nbsp;In November, he won re-election to a second term with 72% of the vote.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[16]</a></sup></font></p><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2008–2014</font></dt></dl><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Price won re-election in 2008 (68%),<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup>&nbsp;2010 (99.9%),<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[18]</a></sup>&nbsp;and 2012 (65%).<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[19]</a></sup></font></p><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2016</font></dt></dl><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tom Price won the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Georgia,2016" title="United States House of Representatives elections in Georgia, 2016" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">election in 2016</a>&nbsp;against Rodney Stooksbury (Democratic). Price received 61.6% of the votes.</font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: none; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Tenure">Tenure</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tom_Price(U.S.politician)&action=edit&section=7&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Tenure" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
Tom Price opposes&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_control" title="Gun control" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">gun control</a>. He praised the Supreme Court's decisions in&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v.Heller" title="District of Columbia v. Heller" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">District of Columbia v. Heller</a></i>, which found that the absolute prohibition of handguns in the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia" class="mw-redirect" title="District of Columbia" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">District of Columbia</a>&nbsp;was unconstitutional, and&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald_v.Chicago" class="mw-redirect" title="McDonald v. Chicago" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">McDonald v. Chicago</a></i>, which stated that the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Second Amendment to the United States Constitution" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Second Amendment</a>&nbsp;applied to the states.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-44" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[44]</a></sup>&nbsp;He was given an "A" grade by the National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund, a 92% approval rating overall from the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Rifle_Association" title="National Rifle Association" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">National Rifle Association</a>&nbsp;and an 83% approval rating<sup id="cite_ref-Project_Vote_Smart_45-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-Project_Vote_Smart-45" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[45]</a></sup>&nbsp;from the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_Owners_of_America" title="Gun Owners of America" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Gun Owners of America</a>, and a 0% approval rating from the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.<sup id="cite_ref-thehill.com_42-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-thehill.com-42" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[42]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-46" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[46]</a></sup>
Tom Price opposes abortion and supported the proposed Protect Life Act, which would have denied&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act" title="Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act</a>&nbsp;(PPACA) funding to health care plans that offered abortion (the PPACA already prevented public funding covering abortions) and allowed hospitals to decline to provide emergency abortion care.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-39" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[39]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-40" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[40]</a></sup>&nbsp;He was rated at 100 by the National Right to Life Center. He was rated at 0 by Planned Parenthood and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NARAL_Pro-Choice_America" title="NARAL Pro-Choice America" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">NARAL Pro-Choice America</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-41" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[41]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-thehill.com_42-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-thehill.com-42" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[42]</a></sup>&nbsp;He participated in the 2011&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_for_Life(Washington,D.C.)" title="March for Life (Washington, D.C.)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">March for Life</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-43" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[43]</a></sup>In 2011, Price voted to prohibit funding of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR" title="NPR" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">National Public Radio</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-govtrack.us_174_20-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-govtrack.us_174-20" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[20]</a></sup>&nbsp;to terminate the Emergency Mortgage Relief Program,<sup id="cite_ref-govtrack.us_836_21-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-govtrack.us_836-21" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[21]</a></sup>&nbsp;to extend the PATRIOT act,<sup id="cite_ref-govtrack.us_514_22-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-govtrack.us_514-22" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[22]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-govtrack.us_79_23-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-govtrack.us_79-23" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[23]</a></sup>&nbsp;to repeal portions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 on multiple occasions,<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[24]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[25]</a></sup>&nbsp;to reduce non-security discretionary spending to 2008 levels<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[26]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-govtrack.us_43_27-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-govtrack.us_43-27" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[27]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-govtrack.us_38_28-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-govtrack.us_38-28" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[28]</a></sup>&nbsp;(and subsequently voted against several amendments offered via motions to recommit with instructions),<sup id="cite_ref-govtrack.us_19_29-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-govtrack.us_19-29" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[29]</a></sup>&nbsp;to reduce Federal spending and the deficit by terminating taxpayer financing of presidential election campaigns and party conventions,<sup id="cite_ref-govtrack.us_22_30-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-govtrack.us_22-30" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[30]</a></sup>&nbsp;to provide funding for government agencies, including the Department of Defense, through September 30, 2011,<sup id="cite_ref-govtrack.us_92_31-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-govtrack.us_92-31" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[31]</a></sup>&nbsp;to cut the Federal Housing Authority's refinancing program,<sup id="cite_ref-govtrack.us_150_32-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-govtrack.us_150-32" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[32]</a></sup>&nbsp;and against a resolution which would force the president to withdraw American forces from Iraq.<sup id="cite_ref-govtrack.us_28_33-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-govtrack.us_28-33" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[33]</a></sup>&nbsp;In 2013, he was the main sponsor of the Require a PLAN Act;<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-34" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[34]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-GovTrack.us_35-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-GovTrack.us-35" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[35]</a></sup>&nbsp;he voted for the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Budget,No_Pay_Act" title="No Budget, No Pay Act" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">No Budget, No Pay Act</a><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-36" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[36]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-GovTrack.us_30_37-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-GovTrack.us_30-37" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[37]</a></sup>&nbsp;and a resolution establishing a budget for the United States Government for FY 2014 that passed the House of Representatives.<sup id="cite_ref-GovTrack.us_25_38-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-GovTrack.us_25-38" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[38]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Tom Price voted against a bill prohibiting job discrimination based on sexual orientation (Nov 2007). He voted in favor of constitutionally defining marriage as one-man-one-woman (Jul 2006). Representative Price voted against H.R. 2965, which would have ended&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_ask,don%27t_tell" title="Don't ask, don't tell" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Don't ask, don't tell</a>. He receives a 0% rating by the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Rights_Campaign" title="Human Rights Campaign" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Human Rights Campaign</a>, a gay rights organization.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-47" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[47]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Tom Price does not support federal regulation of farming. He has voted against regulating and restricting farmers, earning him a 70% from the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Farm_Bureau_Federation" title="American Farm Bureau Federation" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">American Farm Bureau Federation</a>. However, due to this belief, the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Farmers_Union(United_States)" title="National Farmers Union (United States)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">National Farmers Union</a>&nbsp;gave him a 0% approval rate.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-48" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[48]</a></sup>&nbsp;He supported the Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act, stating that it would keep the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_Protection_Agency" class="mw-redirect" title="Environmental Protection Agency" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Environmental Protection Agency</a>&nbsp;from applying too many regulations to farming and ranching.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-49" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[49]</a></sup>&nbsp;He also voted for the Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2012 which, had it become law, would have made supplemental agricultural disaster assistance available, if needed.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-50" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[50]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-51" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[51]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 2008 Price signed a pledge sponsored by&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_for_Prosperity" title="Americans for Prosperity" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Americans for Prosperity</a>&nbsp;promising to vote against any Global Warming legislation that would raise taxes.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-52" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[52]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: none; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Legislation">Legislation</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tom_Price(U.S.politician)&action=edit&section=8&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Legislation" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
Price introduced the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro-Growth_Budgeting_Act_of_2013(H.R.1874;113th_Congress)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pro-Growth Budgeting Act of 2013 (H.R. 1874; 113th Congress)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Pro-Growth Budgeting Act of 2013 (H.R. 1874; 113th Congress)</a>&nbsp;on May 8, 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-1874sum_53-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-1874sum-53" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[53]</a></sup>&nbsp;The bill would require the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Budget_Office" title="Congressional Budget Office" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Congressional Budget Office</a>&nbsp;to provide a macroeconomic impact analysis for bills that are estimated to have a large budgetary effect.<sup id="cite_ref-1874cbo_54-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-1874cbo-54" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[54]</a></sup>&nbsp;Price said it was necessary because of the Congressional Budget Office's current method of reviewing bills just to see what they would cost. Price said "that is a model that has proven to be incapable of providing the type of macroeconomic diagnosis folks need to make sure we are pursuing policies that will help generate economic opportunity and bring down the nation's debt."<sup id="cite_ref-Housepushbudget_55-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-Housepushbudget-55" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[55]</a></sup>&nbsp;H.R. 1874 has passed the House but has yet to become law.Price is the sponsor of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empowering_Patients_First_Act" title="Empowering Patients First Act" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Empowering Patients First Act</a>&nbsp;(EPFA), which he first introduced in the 111th Congress and has reintroduced in each Congress since then. Originally intended to be a Republican alternative to Democratic efforts to reform the health care system, it has since been positioned by Price and other Republicans as a potential replacement to the PPACA. The bill, among other things, creates and expands tax credits for purchasing health insurance, allows for some interstate health insurance markets, and reforms medical malpractice lawsuits.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In total, Price has sponsored 55 bills, including:<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-56" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[56]</a></sup></font></p><h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: none; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="109th_Congress.282005.E2.80.932006.29">109th Congress (2005–2006)</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tom_Price(U.S.politician)&action=edit&section=9&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: 109th Congress (2005–2006)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h4><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">H.R. 3693, a bill to prevent all illegal border crossings after a certain date, introduced September 7, 2005</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">H.R. 3860, a bill to require each state and U.S. territory to maintain a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_offender_registries_in_the_United_States" title="Sex offender registries in the United States" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">sex offender registry</a>, to increase punishments for sexual and violent crimes against children and minors, and to require background checks of individuals before approval of adoptive or foster services, introduced September 22, 2005</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">H.R. 3941, a bill to reduce foreign oil consumption to less than 25% of total oil consumption by no later than 2015, introduced September 29, 2005, reintroduced in the 110th Congress as H.R. 817</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">H.R. 6133, a bill to create national standards for work in laboratories that includes requiring proficiency in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytology" title="Cytology" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">cytology</a>&nbsp;or the study of cells, introduced September 21, 2006. H.R. 6133's companion bill was S. 4056.</font></li></ul><h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: none; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="110th_Congress.282007.E2.80.932008.29">110th Congress (2007–2008)</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tom_Price(U.S.politician)&action=edit&section=10&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: 110th Congress (2007–2008)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h4><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">H.R. 1685, a bill to require holders of personal financial data to increase security of such data, introduced March 26, 2007</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">H.R. 1761, a bill to create a competitive grant program to reward such grants to educational institutions and systems to develop and implement performance-based compensation systems for teachers to encourage teachers to improve educational outcomes, introduced March 29, 2007, reintroduced in the 111th Congress as H.R. 3683</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">H.R. 2626, a bill to allow for tax credits and deductions for purchasing health insurance, to revise government employer contribution amounts, to reform malpractice lawsuits, to provide financial aid to introduce&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_information_technology" title="Health information technology" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">health information technology</a>, to allow for a tax credit for emergency room physicians to offset costs incurred because of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Medical_Treatment_and_Active_Labor_Act" title="Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act</a>, and to promote interstate health insurance markets, introduced June 7, 2007. This bill served as the precursor to EPFA, and most of H.R. 2626's provisions are included in EPFA.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">H.R. 4464, a bill to amend the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964" title="Civil Rights Act of 1964" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Civil Rights Act of 1964</a>&nbsp;to clarify that it is not unlawful for any employer to require proficiency in English as a condition of employment, introduced December 12, 2007, reintroduced in the 111th Congress as H.R. 1588</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">H.R. 6910, a bill to expand oil and natural gas drilling and use revenue generated from such drilling to fund monetary rewards for advancing the research, development, demonstration, and commercial application of alternative fuel vehicles, introduced September 18, 2008</font></li></ul><h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: none; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="111th_Congress.282009.E2.80.932010.29">111th Congress (2009–2010)</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tom_Price(U.S.politician)&action=edit&section=11&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: 111th Congress (2009–2010)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h4><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">H.R. 464, a bill to require states to cover 90% of eligible children for the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Children%27s_Health_Insurance_Program" title="State Children's Health Insurance Program" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">State Children's Health Insurance Program</a>&nbsp;(SCHIP) in the program for households with incomes below 200% of the federal poverty level (FPL), with special rules above 200% of the FPL, to prohibit SCHIP from funding child health care for children in households above 250% of the FPL, and to require more than one health plan to be offered in SCHIP, introduced January 13, 2009. Modified versions of this bill's provisions make up&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empowering_Patients_First_Act#Title_IV.E2.80.93_Safety_Net_Reforms" title="Empowering Patients First Act" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Title IV of EPFA</a>.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">H.R. 3140, a bill to repeal all unpaid provisions of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Recovery_and_Reinvestment_Act_of_2009" title="American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009</a>, to terminate the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Program" title="Troubled Asset Relief Program" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Troubled Asset Relief Program</a>&nbsp;(TARP), and to allocate TARP repayments to reducing the federal government's public debt, introduced July 9, 2009</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">H.R. 3372, a bill to develop best practice guidelines for treating medical conditions and to reform malpractice lawsuits, introduced July 29, 2009, reintroduced in the 112th Congress as H.R. 2363. Modified versions of this bill's provisions make up&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empowering_Patients_First_Act#Title_V.E2.80.93_Lawsuit_Abuse_Reforms" title="Empowering Patients First Act" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Title V of EPFA</a>.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">H.R. 6170, a bill to prevent the Secretary of Health and Human Services from precluding an enrollee, participant, or beneficiary in a health benefits plan from entering into any contract or arrangement for health care with any health care provider, excluding&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicaid" title="Medicaid" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Medicaid</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRICARE" class="mw-redirect" title="TRICARE" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">TRICARE</a>, introduced September 22, 2010. This bill's provisions are included in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empowering_Patients_First_Act#Title_X.E2.80.93_Patient_Freedom_of_Choice" title="Empowering Patients First Act" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Title X of EPFA</a>.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">H.R. 6171, a bill to prevent the Secretary of Health and Human Services or any state from requiring any health care provider to participate in any health plan as a condition of licensure of the provider in any state, introduced September 22, 2010, reintroduced in the 112th and 113th Congresses as H.R. 969. This bill's provisions are included in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empowering_Patients_First_Act#Title_X.E2.80.93_Patient_Freedom_of_Choice" title="Empowering Patients First Act" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Title X of EPFA</a>.</font></li></ul><h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: none; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="112th_Congress.282011.E2.80.932012.29">112th Congress (2011–2012)</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tom_Price(U.S.politician)&action=edit&section=12&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: 112th Congress (2011–2012)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h4><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">H.R. 1700, a bill to allow for Medicare beneficiaries to contract with any health care professionals that provide care covered under the Medicare program, with special circumstances, introduced March 3, 2011, reintroduced in the 113th Congress as H.R. 1310. This bill's provisions are included in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empowering_Patients_First_Act#Title_X.E2.80.93_Patient_Freedom_of_Choice" title="Empowering Patients First Act" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Title X of EPFA</a>.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">H.R. 2077, a bill to repeal the medical&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_ratio" title="Loss ratio" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">loss ratio</a>&nbsp;provision of the PPACA, introduced June 1, 2011</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">H.R. 4066, a bill to exclude&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathologist" class="mw-redirect" title="Pathologist" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">pathologists</a>&nbsp;from Medicare and Medicaid incentive payments and penalties relating to electronic health records, introduced February 6, 2012, reintroduced in the 113th Congress as H.R. 1309</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">H.R. 6616, a bill to exempt U.S.&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security(finance)" title="Security (finance)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">securities</a>&nbsp;transactions from financial taxes and penalties imposed by other nations, introduced November 19, 2012, reintroduced in the 113th Congress as H.R. 2546</font></li></ul><h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: none; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="113th_Congress.282013.E2.80.932014.29">113th Congress (2013–2014)</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tom_Price(U.S.politician)&action=edit&section=13&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: 113th Congress (2013–2014)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h4><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">H.R. 1990 and H.R. 2009, bills to prohibit the Secretary of the Treasury, or any delegate of the Secretary, from implementing or enforcing any provisions of or amendments made by the PPACA or the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Care_and_Education_Reconciliation_Act_of_2010" title="Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010</a>, introduced May 15 and 16, 2013. H.R. 2009 has passed the House but has yet to become law.</font></li></ul><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: none; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Committee_assignments_2">Committee assignments</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tom_Price(U.S.politician)&action=edit&section=14&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Committee assignments" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_the_Budget" title="United States House Committee on the Budget" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Committee on the Budget</font></a></b></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Ways_and_Means" title="United States House Committee on Ways and Means" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Committee on Ways and Means</font></a></b><ul style="list-style-type: disc; 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font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: " linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Membership_in_a_political_medical_organization">Membership in a political medical organization</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tom_Price(U.S.politician)&action=edit&section=15&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Membership in a political medical organization" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Price is a member of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_American_Physicians_and_Surgeons" title="Association of American Physicians and Surgeons" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Association of American Physicians and Surgeons</a><sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-57" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[57]</a></sup>, a small, right-wing political organization whose journal (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_American_Physicians_and_Surgeons" class="mw-redirect" title="Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons</a>) has published articles advocating a range of scientifically discredited hypotheses, including&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_denialism" class="mw-redirect" title="AIDS denialism" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">the belief that HIV does not cause AIDS</a>, that being gay reduces life expectancy, that there is a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion-breast_cancer_hypothesis" class="mw-redirect" title="Abortion-breast cancer hypothesis" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">link between abortion and breast cancer</a>, and that there are&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_autism" title="Causes of autism" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">links between autism and vaccinations</a>.</font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: " linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Personal_life">Personal life</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tom_Price(U.S.politician)&action=edit&section=16&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Personal life" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Price and his wife Betty reside in Roswell, and have one child, Robert Price.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-58" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[58]</a></sup>&nbsp;Betty served on the Roswell City Council and was elected to the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_House_of_Representatives" title="Georgia House of Representatives" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Georgia House of Representatives</a>&nbsp;in a 2015 special election to succeed the late&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Geisinger" title="Harry Geisinger" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Harry Geisinger</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price(U.S.politician)#cite_note-59" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[59]</a></sup>&nbsp;Price is a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbyterian" class="mw-redirect" title="Presbyterian" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Presbyterian</a>.</font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: " linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; 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text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><img border="0" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets2.opensecrets.org/img/legend1.gif" height="10" width="123" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" />&nbsp;$12,334,721</font></td></tr><tr style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Debts:</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><img border="0" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets2.opensecrets.org/img/legend1.gif" height="10" width="0" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" />&nbsp;$0</font></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Last Report:</font></td><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wednesday, October 19, 2016</font></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="headerWithIcons" open="Open" sans="Sans" helvetica="Helvetica" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><h2 style="margin: 2em 0px 0.2em; clear: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Top 5 Contributors, 2003 - 2016</font></h2></div><div class="crpItem" style="margin-right: 25px;" open="Open" sans="Sans" helvetica="Helvetica" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><table id="topContrib" class="datadisplay" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; background: rgb(224, 230, 236); width: 549px;"><thead><tr style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contributor</font></th><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Total</font></th><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Indivs</font></th><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">PACs</font></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Resurgens Orthopaedics</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$220,335</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$220,335</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td></tr><tr style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">American Assn of Orthopaedic Surgeons</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$97,499</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$23,500</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$73,999</font></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">United Parcel Service</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$87,449</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$13,450</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$73,999</font></td></tr><tr style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Georgia Power</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$85,700</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$11,700</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$74,000</font></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Peachtree Orthopaedic Clinic</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$82,713</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$82,713</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="viewMoreText" style="text-align: right; font-style: italic; margin-right: 25px;"><a name="cont" href="https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cycle=Career&cid=N00026160&type=C" style="background-image: initial; 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background: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Industry</font></th><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Total</font></th><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Indivs</font></th><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">PACs</font></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Health Professionals</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$3,557,879</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$2,190,288</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$1,367,591</font></td></tr><tr style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Insurance</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$830,121</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$186,500</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$643,621</font></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Real Estate</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$669,355</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$447,288</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$222,067</font></td></tr><tr style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pharmaceuticals/Health Products</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$596,825</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$99,075</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$497,750</font></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Retired</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$464,710</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$464,710</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="viewMoreText" style="text-align: right; font-style: italic; margin-right: 25px;"><a name="cont" href="https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/industries.php?cycle=Career&cid=N00026160&type=C" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">...view more data</font></a></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><table id="topContrib" class="datadisplay" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; background: rgb(224, 230, 236); width: 549px;"><thead><tr style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><th style="padding: 3px 18px 3px 3px; text-align: center; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contributor</font></th><th style="padding: 3px 18px 3px 3px; text-align: center; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Total</font></th><th style="padding: 3px 18px 3px 3px; text-align: center; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Indivs</font></th><th style="padding: 3px 18px 3px 3px; text-align: center; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">PACs</font></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Resurgens Orthopaedics</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$220,335</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$220,335</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td></tr><tr style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">American Assn of Orthopaedic Surgeons</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$97,499</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$23,500</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$73,999</font></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>United Parcel Service</b></font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>$87,449</b></font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>$13,450</b></font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>$73,999</b></font></td></tr><tr style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Georgia Power</b></font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$85,700</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$11,700</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$74,000</font></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Peachtree Orthopaedic Clinic</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$82,713</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$82,713</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td></tr><tr style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">National<b> Beer Wholesalers Assn</b></font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>$80,000</b></font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>$0</b></font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>$80,000</b></font></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>American Medical Assn</b></font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$75,500</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$8,500</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$67,000</font></td></tr><tr style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">AFLAC Inc</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$74,000</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$1,000</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$73,000</font></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">American College of Radiology</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$73,500</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$73,500</font></td></tr><tr style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Home Depot</b></font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$71,000</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$6,000</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$65,000</font></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">American Academy of Otolaryngology</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$70,000</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$70,000</font></td></tr><tr style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wells Real Estate Funds</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$68,895</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$37,450</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$31,445</font></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">American Society of Anesthesiologists</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$66,500</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$66,500</font></td></tr><tr style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">American College of Cardiology</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$66,000</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$66,000</font></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">American College of Surgeons Prof Assn</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$65,000</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$65,000</font></td></tr><tr style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">American College of Emergency Physicians</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$64,999</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$64,999</font></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">College of American Pathologists</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$63,000</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$63,000</font></td></tr><tr style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">American Academy of Ophthalmology</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$61,500</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$2,500</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$59,000</font></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Emory University</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$60,925</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$60,925</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td></tr><tr style="background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>McKesson Corp</b></font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$60,000</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td><td class="number" style="padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$60,000</font></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div></div></div>