How Mike Pence took over Health and Human Services
Azar, who succeeded ousted HHS Secretary Tom Price in January 2018, was a top executive at Indiana-based drug company Eli Lilly when Pence was governor; Verma was his Indiana health adviser, and is now championing Medicaid reforms around the country thatin Indiana; Verma’s deputy chief of staff, Brady Brookes, is Pence’s former Indiana legislative director; Adams, the surgeon general, is a former Indiana public health official.
Pence was “perhaps the key leader, or one of them” in the GOP effort to scrap Obamacare, said Americans for Prosperity President Tim Phillips, a Koch-funded group that pushes free-market policies but doesn’t get involved in social issuesBut beyond any particular policy, Phillips said, Pence is “an invaluable source of intelligence gathering for the administration for where key constituency groups and key Senate and House groups stand.
Advocacy groups are also considering litigation to halt new HHS “conscience” rules issued this month that make it easier for health care workers to refuse to provide care that violates their religious or moral beliefs. Even somewhat smaller projects appear to bear the vice president’s ideological imprint — for example, a recent HHS decision to grant South Carolina a waiver that allows foster care providers to reject potential families who have different religious beliefs.
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