Tom Price is the wrong man for chief executive for Americans’ health care. Among the wealthiest of surgeons, in Congress he has introduced legislation to limit health insurance coverage, to make it more expensive, and to favor healthy young men over women and elderly sick individuals. He has supported efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act and shown himself to be uninterested in America’s welfare.
He has no experience in primary care, and has demonstrated no insight into the plight of the infirm, nor to the toils of primary care physicians. His history of ignoring or avoiding laws concerning conflicts of interest in his investment portfolios — in fact of transgressing those by fostering laws which would enhance his already considerable fortunes — make him ineligible for such a position. Time magazine, the New England Journal of Medicine, and the Journal of the American Medical Association have spoken out against his candidacy.
Thomas W. Filardo, M.D., Denver
Nora L. Zorich, M.D., ٱԱ
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