Meet Tom Price, Nominee For Secretary Of Health And Human Services

Price is perhaps the most ferocious opponent of Obamacare Trump could choose. Anyone who had any doubts about how the health-care picture would fill out must be under no illusions now.

I knew he was an orthopedic surgeon; I didn't know that he's on the medical profession's radical fringe, a member of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. Sounds good, doesn't it? Click here for its Wikipedia entry, which says it's "a politically conservative non-profit association founded in 1943 to 'fight socialized medicine and to fight the government takeover of medicine.'" (Senator Aqua Buddah Rand Paul was a longtime member until his election to the Senate in 2010.)

The article goes on to say:

The association is generally recognized as politically conservative or ultra-conservative, and its publication advocates a range of scientifically discredited hypotheses, including the belief that HIV does not cause AIDS, that being gay reduces life expectancy, that there is a link between abortion and breast cancer, and that there are links between autism and vaccinations.

Click here for an article at Daily Kos, by Kerry Eleveld, entitled "Tom Price's membership in the medical fringe." The article quotes TalkingPointsMemo as saying:

The group's publication, the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, also has publicized a variety of dubious or debunked medical theories over the years. One 2005 article in AAPS' journal advocated for rescinding the citizenship of so-called “anchor babies,” or the children of undocumented immigrants, who it claimed were responsible for increased leprosy rates. Other articles pushed the myth of a link between vaccines and autism, suggested a link between abortion and breast cancer, and questioned the relationship between HIV and AIDS. The group also once urged the U.S. Supreme Court to release post-mortem photos of Vince Foster, the Bill Clinton White House counsel whose suicide conspiracy theorists believe actually was an assassination. An article separately posted on AAPS’ website even speculated that President Obama’s oratory could in fact be a form of hypnosis, suggesting that he won the presidency by hypnotizing impressionable voters like young people and Jews.

Breitbart, Infowars -- and the AAPS. Quite a crew associated with the administration-to-be.