HHS Secretary Alex Azar in 2019 at House Appropriations Committee session.
Democrats in the Senate questioned Alex Azar, secretary of Health and Human Services, over the Trump administration's lawsuit intended to overturn the Affordable Care Act.
According to a report in Modern Healthcare, Democrats went after the contradiction in terms that saw Trump claiming that those with preexisting conditions would be protected even as his administration sought to overturn the law that provides that protection.
During a Senate Finance Committee hearing on the president's budget, Senator Bob Menendez, D-NJ, went after Azar for his failure to provide a detailed plan to protect patients with preexisting conditions from losing insurance coverage if the Republican-driven lawsuit succeeds in overturning the law.
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Marlene Satter
Marlene Y. Satter has worked in and written about the financial industry for decades.
