Donald Trump to Pick Rep. Tom Price to Lead Department of Health and Human Services

President-elect Donald Trump will choose Georgia Rep. Tom Price to head the Department of Health and Human Services, a high-level source familiar with the decision told NBC News Monday evening.

The pick would insert one of Obamacare’s most outspoken critics into the key position to help dismantle it and help Republicans implement their own blueprint for health care reform.

Price, an orthopedic surgeon and the House point person for crafting legislation to replace the Affordable Care Act, would be particularly well-suited for the role. He’s also chairman of the House Budget Committee, is known as a policy wonk and would add another well-known Capitol Hill name to Trump’s budding cabinet, along with Rep. Mike Pompeo and Sen. Jeff Sessions, whom were named as CIA Director and Attorney General, respectively.

Price joined Trump at his campaign speech on health care reform earlier this month, and issued a statement praising Trump’s commitment to “fully repealing this failed law.”