tom price is picked to be thenext head of the human health services department. it's a really important positionin a regular year, but especially now, because we aretalking about the repeal of the affordable care act, and itsreplacement with...
apple stock price today, something. and this would be one of themost powerful players in making that happen. so his role in the ethics and inmaking decisions for the
american people, not his owncorporations and his own interest, will be importantgoing forward, and there are a lot of questions aboutwhether he will be able to meet those standards. take a look at what happenedlast year. representative tom price boughtbetween 1000 and $15,000 worth of shares last march inzimmer biomet, a medical manufacturing firm. less than a week after thetransaction, he introduced the
hip act, legislation that wouldhave delayed until 2018 the center for medicare and medicaidservices regulation that industry analysts warned ã±warned would significant hurt zimmer biomet once fully formed. after price offered his bill toprovide zimmer biomet and other company's - essentially worse than that,they also donated after he had written a letter to try to getthose regulations from going into effect before thelegislation.
so in both cases, he made thislittle move, and then immediately money was divertedto his reelection funds. let's talk about how brazen thisis. zimmer biomet is one of theleading manufacturers of knee and hip replacements. the bill was about that exactissue. what a coincidence. they just happens that tom pricecare so much about knee and hip implants.
the fact that they are givinghim campaign donations, and he is invested in his stockwhich would go up, heaven forbid, are you saying theremight be personal corruption involved here? yeah, that's exactly what i'msaying, and everyone in the country sees it. even cnn, give them credit, theybroke this story, they were the first ones to come out withit, so, great job cnn. they are so careful, even theexperts" are like, not
necessarily personal corruption,but it has an appearance of conflict of interest. no no no, it's corruption. the guy bought stock rightbefore he introduces legislation to help the company. he obviously thinks, hey, noteven if the legislation passes, the fact that the legislation itexists increases the probability that it will go in theirdirection, which then affects their stock price, whichdrives it up.
he is personally making moneyoff of it, it is the definition of corruption! they say it has the appearanceof conflicts of interest, but i've found in my history thatthe thing that has the appearance of that is a conflictof interest. and he got bribed, legally, the$1000 before, the $1000 after, in a letter, he didn't say, theprice was right, no, he said, oh because a current legislation heis looking to amend what has a negative impact on patient'schoice, access, and quality.
of course it's all about thepatients. it is brazen, and by the way notthe only example. the wall street journal reportedlast month that he had personally traded roughly$300,000 in shares of the past four years in healthcare'sã± in healthcare companies, while pursuing legislation thatcould help them. which is interesting, and here'swhere i wish we could bring in an expert, because i've readabout this thing called the stock act of 2012, which wasspecifically designed to stop
legislators from investing incompanies where there legislation would affect them. in the four years since thestock act, he's traded in a third of $1 million in thatexact same type of stock. how is that not breaking thelaw? and that stock act was writtenpartly because of tom price doing that in the first place. the american people were sooutraged, whether it was democrats or republicans thatwere doing personal training
that would ã± personal tradingthat would help their bottom line, and then pushinglegislation in that bottom line, that's what led to thelegislation. afterwards they were like, wewere just getting around, you thought we were going tohold ourselves accountable? tom price is like do it again! donald trump, is not like theydon't know this, this is part of tom price's story. we found out the details, whichi give cnn credit for, but the
reason he was part of thepush for the stock act ã± not he himself, he was theimpetus for it, they had to do it because of all the actionthat tom price and others like him were doing, everybodyknows it. so why would you bother gettinginto that controversy, and pick this guy anyway? because donald trump is notpicking the tom price's of the world despite their corruption,he's picking them because of their corruption.
so the plan is, i'm going to dorecord corruption. if we get guys in here who areethical, they might hold me accountable. but if we get guys like bencarson, who just said in his rational hearings, i don't careabout donald trump's conflict of interests, and the decisions imake make him rich, i have no problem with that. takes tom price so that tom price wouldn't hold him
tom price won't throw a rockwhen he lives in a giant glass house of corruption. he's purposely buildingadministration built for corruption.
