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Tom Price resigns

Tom Price resigned as Secretary of Health and Human Services on Friday. But let’s not get the story twisted. Price did not resign because, under his leadership, his Department sought to decimate Obamacare, strip transgender people of basic protections in the healthcare system, and make access to contraception and abortion even harder for women. His ethically dubious history in Congress — trading healthcare stocks while serving on a committee that oversaw that industry — was

Podcast Ep. 60: Tom Price

Today on Better Georgia, we have guest host Jeff Romig, founder of Five Points Civic Strategies and political activist in Georgia. We’re talking about the recent controversy surrounding Tom Price, and the various positions that are open in Georgia’s state elections. You can Subscribe and Listen to the Podcast on iTunes, and be sure to leave us a Rating and Review! I don’t think logic and the Trump administration go together that well.” – Jeff Romig Show Notes:

Ethics

HHS Sec. Tom Price jet-setting on taxpayers’ dime

The Trump administration continues its pattern of corruption and hypocrisy. Episodes ranging from Jared Kushner, Reince Priebus and Steve Bannon using their personal email accounts for work-related information after the Trump administration slammed Hillary Clinton to Trump spending over $20 million in taxpayer money on trips to Mar-a-Largo. Now Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price has been jet-setting at taxpayers’ expense, both before and after he vowed to wring out wasteful spending in the government’s health

Ethics

Tom Price faces ethics complaint

Georgia’s Tom Price may be in trouble again, after an ethics group filed a complaint stating he illegally used campaign funds to support his nomination to Secretary of Health and Human Services. Price, the Congressman turned Secretary of HHS under the Trump administration, is no stranger to accusations of ethical misdeeds. During his confirmation hearings, it came to light that he had made himself a nice chunk of change trading stocks in the medical industry

Congressional District 6

Does Handel agree with Price on targeting the old, sick?

Karen Handel has said Tom Price is the best person in the country for this job but after only a few months in Congress he’s already proposed legislation that makes life harder — and more expensive — for older, sicker Americans. Tom Price was interviewed on Fox and Friends about Trump’s alternative to the Affordable Care Act. He was specifically asked by one of the show’s hosts if older and sicker people could end up

Healthcare

Trumpcare disastrous for Georgia women

In a party line vote, Georgia’s nine Republican U.S. Representatives voted to gut health care protections for women and their families, while the state’s four Democrats voted against Trump’s American Health Care Act. The AHCA would be a disaster for the 2.1 million women of reproductive age in this state. Trump’s alternative to the ACA, as it passed the House, allows insurers to charge higher premiums or deny coverage to people for their health history,