Washington: President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for health secretary was expected to face hard questions from a US Senate panel yesterday about his personal stock investments and proposals to dismantle Obamacare.

Representative Tom Price, a Georgia orthopaedic surgeon who has been in politics for more than 20 years, was chosen by Trump, to head an agency that manages scores of healthcare programmes. Price was likely to be approved for the post by the Republican-controlled Senate.