The move, which comes just days ahead of an enrollment deadline for health plans under the health care law, follows Trump's executive order last weekend in which he suggested his administration wouldn't implement rules crucial to sustaining viable markets.
His hearing came only a day after the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released a report on the economic impact of a repeal of the ACA. Price has consistently voted for repeal.
Rachel Maddow reports that NBC News, citing "a high level source", has learned that Georgia Congressman Tom Price, a strident critic of the Affordable Care Act, has been chosen by President-elect Donald Trump to lead the Department of Health and Human Services
Seth Meyers takes a closer look at Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's response to Obamacare in the wake of the Obama administration announcing a rise in health care premiums.
