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Did Tom Price Say It Is 'Better for Our Budget If Cancer Patients Die More Quickly'?

A statement attributed to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price about the budget benefits of cancer patients' dying quickly is apocryphal.

by Dan Evon, Published March 17, 2017


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Claim:
Tom Price said that it was 'better for our budget if cancer patients die more quickly.'
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False

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On 16 March 2017, the web site Newslo published an article positing that U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price had said that it would be better for the federal budget if cancer patients died quickly:


By Dan Evon

Dan Evon is a former writer for Snopes.


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