Trump’s FDA Nominee Has Fear Mongered About Obamacare’s Birth Control Benefit
President Trump announced Friday that he would nominate Dr. Scott Gottlieb, who has deep ties to the pharmaceutical industry and has expressed anti-choice views, to head the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Gottlieb is a resident fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute and served as the deputy commissioner for medical and scientific affairs at the FDA under President George W. Bush. The physician sits on the boards of several major pharmaceutical companies.
Gottlieb has often attempted to stoke fears about the Obama administration’s birth control benefit, falsely claiming that under the Affordable Care Act, women “risk losing far more than they’ll gain.”
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