Scott Gottlieb likes his job running the FDA, but he isn't ruling out a big HHS promotion
Exactly 5 months after Scott Gottlieb was sworn in as the new commissioner of the FDA, he’s a top candidate to replace his old boss Tom Price as head of Health and Human Services. And even as he demurs about the idea of taking the high profile Cabinet post, he isn’t exactly refusing to consider it.
“I feel like I want to continue to follow through on the policies we’ve put out [at FDA] and it’s where I think I can be most effective,” the diplomatic Gottlieb told Reuters in an interview.
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