Tom Price (8 October 1954-) was the US Secretary of Health and Human Services from 10 February to 29 September 2017, succeeding Sylvia Mathews Burwel and preceding Don J. Wright. He previously served as a member of the US House of Representatives (R-GA 6) from 3 January 2005 to 10 February 2017, succeeding Johnny Isakson and preceding Karen Handel.
Biography[]
Tom Price was born on 8 October 1954 in Lansing, Michigan, and he grew up in nearby Dearborn. He graduated with a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Michigan, and he completed his residency at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Prince settled in Georgia, and he ran an orthopedic clinic for twenty years before becoming a member of the State Senate in 1997 and a member of the US House of Representatives as a Republican Party member. In 2015, he became the chairman of the House Budget Committee, and President-elect Donald Trump nominated him to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services on 28 November 2016, as he voted in favor of job discrimination and against anti-global warming reforms. He took office on 10 February 2017, and he endorsed Trump's failed "American Health Care Act of 2017". In September 2017, Politico discovered that he had spent $1,000,000 of his department's funding on private jets; he had previously claimed that politicians using private jets was "fiscal irresponsibility running amok." He resigned on 29 September 2017, the shortest-lived Secretary of Health and Human Services in history.