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Ousted health secretary Tom Price burned $341K on pricey travel: watchdog
The government wasted at least $341,000 on pricey travel for ousted Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price — who booked expensive charter flights without considering cheaper scheduled airlines, an...
Trump picks Alex Azar as health secretary to replace Tom Price
President Trump on Monday announced Alex Azar, a former pharmaceutical industry executive and George W. Bush administration official, as his pick for secretary of health and human services. “Happy to...
Ryan Zinke under investigation for private charter flights
Interior Department investigators are probing Secretary Ryan Zinke's use of private charter flights. Zinke disclosed last week that he has taken three charter flights, including a $12,375 late-night trip from...
The 'Price' of swamp disease and other comments
Russian dissident: Don’t Overreact to Internet Nazis Garry Kasparov warns that it would be a mistake for the outrage around Russian and neo-Nazi social-media mischief to result in “a push...
Pence protégé seen as frontrunner to replace Price
The frontrunner to replace Tom Price as Secretary of Health and Human Services was the architect of Indiana’s Medicaid expansion under Obamacare and is considered a protégé of Vice President...
Trump's health chief Tom Price resigns over private flight scandal
Embattled Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price quit on Friday, the White House announced. "Secretary of Health and Human Services Thomas Price offered his resignation earlier today and the...
Price isn't paying back nearly what he spent on charter flights
Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said Thursday he’ll only pay for a fraction of the hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars he blew on chartered flights. Politico revealed...
Tom Price says he'll pay taxpayers for charter flights, fly commercial now
Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price apologized for using private planes on government and personal business and said he will reimburse taxpayers for the cost of the flights. "I...
Tom Price doesn't seem worried about private plane probe
Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said Thursday that he believes President Trump still has confidence in him — a day after Trump admitted he was "not happy" with...
Trump 'not happy' with Tom Price's use of private jets
President Trump said he's "not happy" with Tom Price, the head of the Department of Health and Human Services, over his use of costly private charter flights and wouldn't rule...
Trump was joking when he told Boy Scouts he'd fire me: Price
WASHINGTON – Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said President Trump was just joking last week when he threatened to fire him in front of tens of thousands of...
Tom Price: Trump won't let ObamaCare implode
WASHINGTON – President Trump will decide “this week” whether to cut off payments to insurance companies that help low-income people afford health care but won't allow ObamaCare to collapse because...
Trump jokes about firing cabinet member if health care bill fails
President Trump flippantly said Monday that he would fire the Health and Human Services secretary if the cabinet member was not able to gather enough votes for Trump's health care...
Tom Price: 'We don't need to be throwing money' at opioid crisis
The head of Health and Human Services said on Sunday that Congress doesn't need to "throw money" at the opioid crisis but should direct the funds at "evidence-based treatment." "We...
Tom Price promises GOP health care bill will lower premiums
WASHINGTON – Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price on Sunday made some bold pledges about the GOP health care plan - it would bring down premiums and individuals would...
What Democrats can learn from spending $30M on a House race — and losing
Before we go overboard analyzing the meaning of the narrow special-election victory of a Republican in a Republican district, we should remember how it came to be that a Democrat...
GOP senators working on health care still haven't seen bill
WASHINGTON — Three GOP senators involved in a working group on health care say they still haven't see the ObamaCare replacement bill making its debut later this week. “Even though...
Trump slams Democrats for stalling his legislative agenda
President Trump blasted Democrats for stalling his legislative agenda during a tweetstorm on Monday while voicing his support for the Republican candidate in a closely watched Georgia election. "The...
Researcher discovers Georgia voter database exposed online
HOUSTON — A security researcher disclosed a gaping security hole at the outfit that manages Georgia's election technology, days before the state holds a closely watched congressional runoff vote on...
CEO defends journalist arrested for yelling questions at Tom Price
A West Virginia journalist arrested after repeatedly asking U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price a question said he did nothing wrong, and his attorney and the media outlet’s...