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In tapping Rep. Tom Price and Medicaid consultant Seema Verma Tuesday for top health positions, President-elect Donald Trump has signaled that he intends to put conservative health-policy goals at the forefront of his administration. (Radnofsky, 11/29)

In choosing Representative Tom Price of Georgia to be his health secretary, President-elect Donald J. Trump has signaled an undiminished determination to repeal President Obama’s signature domestic achievement, the Affordable Care Act, and replace it with a health law that would be far less comprehensive. And Mr. Trump is handing Republicans and their base voters what they have clamored for since the Affordable Care Act became law in 2010 — a powerful force to reverse course. (Pear, 11/29)

Price, a former orthopedic surgeon and six-term House member from suburban Atlanta, has proposed policies that are more conservative than those of many House Republican colleagues. His vision for health reform hinges on eliminating much of the federal government's role in favor of a free-market framework built on privatization, state flexibility and changes to the tax code. The vast majority of the 20 million people now covered under Obamacare would have far less robust coverage — if they got anything at all. “Young, healthy and wealthy people may do quite well under this vision of health care reform,” said Larry Levitt, a senior vice president at the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation. “But the people who are older and poorer and sicker could do a lot worse.” (Cancryn, Haberkorn and Pradhan, 11/29)

Price's major complaint about the ACA is that it puts the government in the middle of the doctor-patient relationship. "They believe the government ought to be in control of health care," Price said in June at the American Enterprise Institute event where Ryan unveiled the Republican proposal to replace Obamacare. "We believe that patients and doctors should be in control of health care," Price continued. "People have coverage, but they don't have care." (Kodjak, 11/29)

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Republican Rep. Tom Price of Georgia to become the next secretary of Health and Human Services. Price, a surgeon by training, has been one of the loudest and most ambitious critics of the Affordable Care Act, even introducing a nearly 250-page replacement plan. One core principle in Price's proposal: the idea that everyone in the country will get a subsidy to buy insurance.  (Gorenstein, 11/29)

The future of the Affordable Care Act looks both bleaker and cloudier with President-elect Donald Trump's nomination for his administration's top health jobs. House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price, R-Ga., a surgeon and outspoken critic of the law, was named to head the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Price introduced a replacement plan last year that includes some elements that are similar to the ACA, but removes the mandate that everyone have insurance. (O'Donnell, 11/29)

President-elect Donald Trump has selected U.S. Rep. Tom Price of Georgia as his nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services. Price, 62, an orthopedic surgeon, has been a fierce critic of the Affordable Care Act, and has also discussed major changes to the Medicare program. (Miller, 11/29)

As an orthopedic surgeon, Tom Price is used to calling the shots in the operating room. If confirmed to run the federal Department of Health and Human Services, the doctor-turned-congressman from Georgia may find it a lot harder to exercise authority. ... Almost everything the vast department does is circumscribed by law and regulations, and churned out through layers of bureaucracy not always in full communication with each other. (11/29)