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FILE--In this Jan. 10, 2017, file photo, California Gov. Jerry Brown discusses his 2017-2018 state budget plan in Sacramento, Calif. Brown's administration miscalculated costs for the state Medi-Cal program by $1.9 billion last year, an oversight that contributed to Brown's projection of a deficit in the upcoming budget, officials have acknowledged.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, file)
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FILE--In this Jan. 10, 2017, file photo, California Gov. Jerry Brown discusses his 2017-2018 state budget plan in Sacramento, Calif. Brown's administration miscalculated costs for the state Medi-Cal program by $1.9 billion last year, an oversight that contributed to Brown's projection of a deficit in the upcoming budget, officials have acknowledged.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, file)
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Suspended South Carolina Rep. Chris Corley, right, waits for a bond hearing with his lawyer, John Delgado, left, at the Aiken County courthouse in Aiken, S.C., on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2016. A judge set a $50,000 bond for Corley on a more serious charge of domestic violence. Corley was originally charged with second-degree criminal domestic violence, but an Aiken County grand jury indicted the 36-year-old Republican earlier this month on the more serious charge of criminal domestic violence of a high and aggravated nature. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)
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Education Secretary-designate Betsy DeVos testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017, at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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FILE - This Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016, file photo shows a display of prescription medicines for impotence and sexual problems at a doctor's office in San Diego. For many older couples, fun in the bedroom requires prescription help, but prices of the most popular brand-name sexual dysfunction drugs have tripled over the past seven years. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2017, file photo, Texas Speaker of the House Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, stands before the opening of the 85th Texas Legislative session in the House chambers at the Texas State Capitol after he was re-elected for a fifth consecutive term in Austin, Texas. Straus has branded as bad for business a Texas proposal barring transgender people from using public restrooms of their choice that's been championed by his state's leading conservatives despite echoing a law that caused upheaval in North Carolina. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
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A man who police say is the owner of two pit bulls that killed one child and injured another is taken into custody from a home in Atlanta, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017. (John Spink /Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)
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Health and Human Services Secretary-designate, Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., right, talks with Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga. on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017, prior to the start of Price's confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Health and Human Services Secretary-designate, Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., right, talks with Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga. on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017, prior to the start of Price's confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., with the committee's ranking member Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017, during the committee's confirmation hearing for Health and Human Services Secretary-designate, Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., lower right. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Hundreds of Rutgers University students block College Ave., in New Brunswick, N.J., as they march to protest some of President elect Donald Trump's policies and to ask school officials to denounce some of his plans at Rutgers University Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2016, in New Brunswick, N.J. College students at campuses around the United States say they are planning rallies and walkouts to call on school administrators to protect students and employees against immigration proceedings under Donald Trump's presidency. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
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Health and Human Services Secretary-designate, Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga. testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017, at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Health and Human Services Secretary-designate, Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., accompanied by Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., who introduced him, speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017, at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Health and Human Services Secretary-designate, Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga. testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017, at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Health and Human Services Secretary-designate, Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017, at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Health and Human Services Secretary-designate, Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., pauses while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017, at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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FILE - In this Oct. 24, 2016 file photo, the HealthCare.gov 2017 web site home page as seen in Washington. That Americans agree on much of anything is remarkable after a presidential race that ripped open the nation’s economic, political and cultural divisions unlike any contest before it. But on the brink of the Trump presidency, a new poll finds that there’s clear accord across those divisions on the need to do something about health care in the United States. More than four-in-10 Republicans, Democrats and independents say health care is a top issue facing the country, The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll showed. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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A California man was hospitalized Tuesday night after he tried to light himself on fire in front of the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., as an "act of protest" against the president-elect. (NBC 4/@shomaristone)
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FILE - In this Jan. 5, 2016, file Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. An orthopedic surgeon elected in 2004, Price has long been a conservative critic of Obamacare, arguing instead for as little government involvement as possible. He applies the same idea to criticisms of Medicare, the government insurance programs for older Americans, and Medicaid, government insurance for the poor and disabled. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2016, file photo, Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., President-elect Donald Trump's choice for Health and Human Services Secretary speaks in Washington. With coverage for millions of people at stake, Price is facing pointed questions about President-elect Donald Trump’s health policies, and his own investments in health care companies, from senators considering his selection as health secretary. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, file)
