{"id":8794,"date":"2017-12-01T05:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T10:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8794"},"modified":"2017-11-30T12:27:53","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T17:27:53","slug":"alex-azars-4-biggest-priorities-as-hhs-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8794","title":{"rendered":"Alex Azar&#8217;s 4 biggest priorities as HHS secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Leo Vartorella for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Alex Azar, President Donald Trump&#8217;s nominee for HHS secretary,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.help.senate.gov\/hearings\/nomination-of-alex-azar-to-serve-as-secretary-of-health-and-human-services\">appeared<\/a>\u00a0before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee Wednesday for his first Congressional hearing on the road to confirmation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/hospital-management-administration\/alex-azar-s-4-biggest-priorities-as-hhs-secretary.html\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/HHS-seal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8242\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/HHS-seal-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/HHS-seal-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/HHS-seal.jpg 339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>\r\n\r\n<strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Leo Vartorella for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Alex Azar, President Donald Trump&#8217;s nominee for HHS secretary,\u00a0appeared\u00a0before the Senate Health, Education,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8795,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8794\/revisions\/8795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}