Ex-HHS Chief Ends Silence to Tout Labor Dept. Health Rule

Ousted Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price is dipping his toes back into the public waters with only one issue on his agenda: an upcoming Labor Department rule that would expand association health plans and potentially undermine the Affordable Care Act.

Price is eager for the DOL to finalize the regulation “sooner rather than later,” he told Bloomberg Law in some of his first public comments since leaving the administration in September. Seeing the rule done would fulfill the former congressman’s decades-long crusade to let small businesses join together to offer workers affordable health insurance, he said.

Price, whose ...