HHS Nominee Tom Price Targeted Panel That Urged Fewer Cancer Screenings – NPR

Read article - Quotes H. Gilbert Welch, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in an article about how Rep. Tom Price, President Trump's pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has criticized a task force of medical experts whose recommendations guide health screening and disease prevention. Price pushed HHS to quash the task force's recommendations to limit widely used cancer screenings. "The dirty underbelly of screening is that it's a great way to get more patients," says Welch, a close observer of the task force's work. "The financial underpinnings are huge."