Modern Healthcare June 16, 2017
HHS Secretary Tom Price’s leadership in shepherding the AHCA and his expected role in overseeing value-based payment innovations earned him the top spot on Modern Healthcare’s 50 Most Influential Physician Executives.
In March, new HHS Secretary Dr. Tom Price said no Americans would be hurt financially by the House Republican bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. He predicted the number of people with insurance would increase.
A few days later, during a CNN town hall event, Price defended the bill, which would phase out enhanced federal funding for the ACA’s Medicaid expansion. He was confronted by Brian Kline, a Pennsylvania cancer survivor, who told Price the expansion “saved my life and saved me from medical bankruptcy.” Kline...
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