Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., is President Trump's nominee to be the next secretary of Health and Human Services, and the next chief executive officer of the U.S. systems for providing acute health care and long-term care for older residents.

HHS has an annual budget over $1 trillion. It oversees both Medicare, which provides health care for the elderly and disabled, and Medicaid, a state-federal program that pays for nursing home care for people who meet state and federal eligibility standards.

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Allison Bell

Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.