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Alex Michael Azar II (/ ˈ eɪ z ɑːr /; born June 17, 1967) is an American attorney, businessman, lobbyist, and former pharmaceutical executive who served as the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services from 2018 to 2021.
Jan 16, 2021 · Alex Azar, the Health and Human Services Secretary, resigned earlier this week, citing the violent Capitol riot inflamed by President Donald Trump in his resignation letter obtained by NBC...
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Oct 12, 2022 · Currently an Adjunct Professor of Health Management and Policy at the University of Miami’s Herbert Business School, Azar was the guest speaker at the latest in an ongoing series of health policy seminars at the University of Pennsylvania’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (Penn LDI).
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- His ties to pharma run deep. Azar worked for Eli Lilly for the greater part of the last decade. He held several positions at the company, including as president, senior vice president of corporate affairs and communication and vice president of managed healthcare services for Puerto Rico.
- He doesn’t have a great track record on reducing drug prices. Trump declared on Twitter that Azar will be “a star for better healthcare and lower drug prices!”
- He has contributed a lot of his money to the pharmaceutical industry political spending. Although Trump has criticized the amount of money drug companies give to politicians, Rollcall reported that since 2000, Azar has spent approximately $105,000 in political contributions.
- He opposes Trump’s policy proposal to import medications from Canada. One of the best parts of the American healthcare system, he told Fox Business during an interview in June, is its closed distribution system and the tight control of products in the U.S.
Nov 13, 2017 · Alex Azar, who headed drugmaker Eli Lilly, was nominated Monday to be secretary of Health and Human Services. Azar had served as general counsel for HHS. Inside courtroom College protests Start...
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Nov 28, 2017 · By Dina Fine Maron. Alex Azar. United States Department of Health and Human Services Wikimedia Commons. Policy. When Pres. Donald Trump announced he was nominating Alex Michael Azar II to...
Aug 4, 2021 · Alex Azar, who as the nation’s top health official supervised Operation Warp Speed to develop COVID-19 vaccines in record time, will undertake a teaching and policy research position at the University of Miami this September. Alex Azar, former U.S. secretary of health and human services. Photo: The Associated Press.
