The Surgeon General reports to the Assistant Secretary for Health (ASH), who may be a four-star admiral in the United States Public Health Service, Commissioned Corps (PHSCC), and who serves as the principal adviser to the Secretary of Health and Human Services on public health and scientific issues.
Rand Paul is going to be losing supporters, even among Libertarians. He is becoming too extreme and backing candidates that fill the description of extreme. He says Dr. Murthy is primarily a political animal and that is life.
It is very strange to have a man who is an optomologist state another health care professional is a political animal. Hello?
October 16, 2014
...Rear Admiral Boris Lushniak (click here) has been acting surgeon general since Regina Benjamin’s resignation in July 2013.
Rand Paul is going to be losing supporters, even among Libertarians. He is becoming too extreme and backing candidates that fill the description of extreme. He says Dr. Murthy is primarily a political animal and that is life.
It is very strange to have a man who is an optomologist state another health care professional is a political animal. Hello?
October 16, 2014
...Rear Admiral Boris Lushniak (click here) has been acting surgeon general since Regina Benjamin’s resignation in July 2013.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) put a hold on Murthy’s nomination in February, noting “the majority of Dr. Murthy’s non-clinical experience is in political advocacy.”
“Historically, the Surgeon General of the United States has been a position with the purpose of educating Americans so that they may lead healthier lives, rather than advancing a political agenda,” Paul wrote at the time to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). “Dr. Murthy has disqualified himself from being Surgeon General because of his intent to use that position to launch an attack on Americans’ right to own a firearm under the guise of a public health and safety campaign.”...
