WASHINGTON — One of the Republican Party’s most outstanding well being care thinkers doesn’t know what the GOP’s present well being care technique truly is.

Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb stated Tuesday night that the celebration’s earlier well being care focus — on technocratic methods like rising competitors in drug markets or supporting non-public Medicare plans — have largely fallen off platforms and out of stump speeches.

“It would be hard for me to step back and articulate to you or anyone what the conservative philosophy is generally on health care reforms,” Gottlieb, a present board member at Pfizer and a senior fellow on the conservative suppose tank American Enterprise Institute, stated Tuesday at a STAT occasion in Washington, D.C.