Price, A Fierce Opponent Of The ACA, Now Stuck Holding The Reins On Administering It

Many expect new Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price to shift the regulations onto a more conservative path, but don't expect him to try to sabotage it completely.

Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price came into office last month ready to lead the charge on repealing ObamaCare. Now, that effort has run into a brick wall, leaving him to oversee a law he fiercely opposes. President Trump last week predicted that ObamaCare “soon will explode,” stirring speculation that the administration could seek to undermine the law. Yet there are also signs that Price and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will take a more pragmatic approach. (Sullivan, 3/28)

The problems with the health care system in the United States may seem like they’re new, but they’re not. Historian Nancy Tomes explains to Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson how our uneven, expensive and complicated system came to be. (Hobson, 3/27)

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