The two leading candidates to head the Food and Drug Administration under Donald Trump are Jim O'Neill and Dr. Scott Gottlieb. O'Neill has an impressive background, having served as an investment advisor in a number of Peter Thiel's businesses and previously worked at the Dept. of Health and Human Services. But if Trump is serious about hiring “the best people”–and most of his appointments so far show that he is–then he'll choose Dr. Gottlieb.
Not only is Gottlieb a medical doctor, his writing shows he often views medicine from the perspective of an economist (probably due to his undergraduate degree in economics.) He understands how government laws and regulations needlessly raise the cost of health care.
