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While Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price was in Sandy saying this:

"Sandy • As criticism mounts over the Republican plan to replace Obamacare, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price made a quick stop in a Salt Lake City suburb Monday to decry the pitfalls of the current health care system and to defend President Donald Trump as someone determined to get 'something positive done.'..."

Conservative New York Times pundit David Brooks was writing this:

The G.O.P. Rejects Conservatism — David Brooks | The New York Times

" ... Because Republicans have no governing vision, they can't argue for their plans. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price came to the Aspen Ideas Festival to make the case for the G.O.P. approach. It's not that he had bad arguments; he had no arguments, no vision for the sort of health care system these bills would usher in. He filled his time by rising to a level of vapid generality that was utterly detached from the choices in the actual legislation.

"Because Republicans have no national vision, they seem largely uninterested in the actual effects their legislation would have on the country at large. This Senate bill would be completely unworkable because anybody with half a brain would get insurance only when they got sick. ..."