Trump nominates former drug company executive Alex Azar as next Health and Human Services secretary

[Judas]

[quote]President Donald Trump said Monday that he will nominate former pharmaceutical executive Alex Azar as secretary of the U.S. Health and Human Services Department.

IAzar, 50, had until last January served as president of the American arm of drug giant Eli Lilly and Company. The Yale Law graduate Azar also had served as general counsel of HHS in the administration of President George W. Bush.[/quote]

[url]https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/13/trump-nominates-alex-azar-as-next-hhs-secretary.html[/url]

[thatswordguy]

This has become as predictable as a Marvel movie plot

[matt000024]

At least he is qualified for the position and has worked for the government before.

[Kimr]

seems like trump don't know the difference between fill and drain

[nihilnoid]

Is this Alex guy bad or something?

[Camdude90]

swamp = drained

[Jim Morrison]

[QUOTE=Nihilnoid;52886443]Is this Alex guy bad or something?[/QUOTE]

[quote]Azar has previously said he does not believe the expansion of Medicaid has been successful, saying he would have preferred to use government money through "private-sector vehicles" to deliver health care.[/quote]

He's a typical soulless drug company executive who wants to repeal Obamacare and privatize Medicare. He's an enemy of the American people.

[kariko]

[QUOTE=matt000024;52885852]At least he is qualified for the position and has worked for the government before.[/QUOTE]

I can't believe we're so deep into the shit that "is qualified" is something worthy of praising. :disappoint:

[Zero-Point]

[QUOTE=Jim Morrison;52886458]He's a typical soulless drug company executive who wants to repeal Obamacare and privatize Medicare. He's an enemy of the American people.[/QUOTE]

[quote]saying he would have preferred to use government money through "private-sector vehicles" to deliver health care.[/quote]

Wait, wait, waitwaitwait, back the fun bus up: Is he literally saying that he wants the [I]government[/I] to pay for healthcare, just not [I]directly[/I], but instead paying [I]private[/I] entities to do it? What the fuck?

[Gufu]

[QUOTE=Zero-Point;52886847]Wait, wait, waitwaitwait, back the fun bus up: Is he literally saying that he wants the [I]government[/I] to pay for healthcare, just not [I]directly[/I], but instead paying [I]private[/I] entities to do it? What the fuck?[/QUOTE]

Pay a little to politician, and have the government pay you back hundred-fold.

[Archangel125]

In other words, he wants the government money that's currently going into health insurance for the poor to go into the pockets of drug corps instead.

[Zero-Point]

[QUOTE=archangel125;52887453]In other words, he wants the government money that's currently going into health insurance to go into the pockets of drug corps instead.[/QUOTE]

That's the gist I was getting. Gotta keep them share-holders happy!