Transition Round-Up

Trump Picks Health Leadership; GOP Scrambles On ACA Replacement Plan

By Amy Lotven / December 2, 2016 at 7:43 PM
President-elect Donald Trump continues to build out his health policy team, adding conservative health policy experts Nina Owcharenko of Heritage Foundation, Scott Gottlieb of American Enterprise Institute and Eric Hargan of Greenberg Traurig to his transition team Thursday just days after tapping Rep. Tom Price (R- GA) and Medicaid consultant Seema Verma to serve as HHS secretary and CMS administrator respectively. In Congress, GOP leadership may be coalescing around a plan to repeal the unpopular parts of the ACA with...


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