Trump’s pick for Health Secretary promises to implement Obamacare ‘if it remains’

President Donald Trump’s pick for Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary is a pharmaceutical executive familiar with the department which he is nominated to lead. On Wednesday, before a Senate committee on health, Alex Azar defended his past: law clerk for Justice Antonin Scalia, HHS General Counsel and Deputy Secretary under President George W. Bush, and executive to drug giant Eli Lilly.

Since Trump came to office, HHS has undermined the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and hind...