Af­ter tak­ing on phar­ma M&A, 'pay-for-de­lay' and Gilead­'s remde­sivir pric­ing, Cal­i­for­nia AG tapped to lead HHS — re­ports

Pres­i­dent-elect Joe Biden is re­port­ed­ly tap­ping Cal­i­for­nia’s At­tor­ney Gen­er­al, a for­mer 12-term con­gress­man and vo­cal ad­vo­cate of im­proved health­care ac­cess, to re­place Alex Azar as the Sec­re­tary of Health and Hu­man Ser­vices.

Xavier Be­cer­ra, 62, is a sur­prise choice, the New York Times re­port­ed, as he’s per­haps bet­ter known for oth­er is­sues like crim­i­nal jus­tice and im­mi­gra­tion. But re­cent­ly he’s al­so spear­head­ed the le­gal ef­fort to de­fend the Af­ford­able Care Act, lead­ing a coali­tion of 20 states and DC to ar­gue in front of the Supreme Court.

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