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Trump won praise from Republicans Tuesday for his pick of Price to serve as health and human services secretary.

Georgia Republican Congressman Tom Price has introduced bills in each of the past four Congresses that would repeal Obamacare and replace it with a combination of health savings accounts and tax credits.

Price would offer states federal funding to set up high-risk pools for those who can’t afford substitute insurance on the open market.

Price is conservative on social issues, an opponent of gay marriage and abortion rights and a believer that religion should play a larger role in government.

Price’s selection raised questions about the incoming president’s commitment to Medicare, among other popular entitlement programs he repeatedly vowed to preserve before the election.

However, he has since said he favours keeping certain provisions.

The report comes just as President-elect Donald Trump is naming officials to his health policy team who are determined to dismantle the Affordable Care Act.

Price’s comments, which came during the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, rested on the idea that the birth control rules violated religious freedom protections, a claim that sparked lawsuits against the law.

Price’s pet project since he was first elected to public office 20 years ago has been reforming state and federal laws to limit doctors’ vulnerability to lawsuits from former patients who allege malpractice.

“Those are stumbling blocks for a lot of Republicans and are the two most important reasons there isn’t a Republican alternative that has united the Republicans in Congress and outside”, says Goodman. Given that the president-elect is by all accounts a deeply impressionable man with little to no policy expertise, Price is nearly certainly set to play an extremely influential role in any negotiations over health care legislation.

The president-elect spent the weekend tweeting his opposition to recount efforts in up to three states led by Green Party candidate Jill Stein and joined by Hillary Clinton’s team.

Price said he is enthusiastic about the nomination. Congressional approval will be needed to repeal and change the health law. Those with preexisting conditions who go without insurance and “game the system”, as Goodman puts it, would be penalized. He voted repeatedly against the Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP, which many Republicans support. Where the president-elect has spoken in vague terms about his policy plans for limiting people’s access to reproductive health care, Price has a legislative history that proves he’s intent on dismantling reproductive rights – and that he knows how to do it.

But Brandeis health policy professor Stuart Altman says it may also be time for MA to prepare a backup plan in case the ACA goes away.

And gone would be the needless regulations requiring the insured to buy coverage for things they don’t want or need. The credit starts at $1,200 a year and rises with age, but isn’t adjusted for income.

“He’s not the kind of person who’s going to get run over on something like this”, the source said.

Price, a Georgia congressman and physician, has rallied against Obamacare since its inception, explaining: “Many Americans lost the health coverage they were told time and time again by the president that they could keep”. But Goodman says it is also more fair as older adults don’t typically have college loans and mortgages to pay off.

In addition to Chairman Price’s nomination, President-elect Trump announced his choice of Seema Verma, one of the leading experts in the country on Medicare and Medicaid, to serve as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

For another crucial post, the director of the agency that runs Medicare and Medicaid, Trump named Seema Verma, an IN health care consultant who worked with the state government of Vice President-elect Mike Pence. He said: “I don’t have a problem, I think it’s time to govern”.