WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has sworn in Alex Azar to serve as his second health secretary at the White House.
The former drug company executive and official in George W. Bush’s administration succeeds former Republican Georgia congressman Tom Price, who resigned last fall following an outcry over his use of costly private charter aircraft for official travel.
Azar’s nomination as secretary of Health and Human Services was approved by the Senate last week, largely along party lines.
Azar has said his priorities include curbing the cost of prescription drugs, making health insurance more affordable and available, and confronting the opioid addiction epidemic.
Trump says, “He’s going to get those prescription drug prices way down.”
Azar spent a decade as a senior executive of Indianapolis-based drugmaker Eli Lilly and Co.
Except for birth control pills - they will be priced like street value oxycontin.
Wait. Is Azar a Democrat? I’m so confused…
I wait with baited breath.
Azar has said his priorities include curbing the cost of prescription drugs, making health insurance more affordable and available, and confronting the opioid addiction epidemic.
Funny, but Trump has said those same things. Of course, Trump is a liar and would have no idea how to do those things even if he was so inclined (which he’s not). So, excuse me for not believing this guy either.
I guess Mexico is going to pay for the discounts. Fuck this shit. There’s no way on this green earth that a former Lilly guy is going to get drug prices way down. That’s contrary to what’s in his DNA. And there’s the fact he has no way to do it but ask.