Lee dismissed worries about the fact that Leavitt was profiting from the implementation of President Obama's health care law.
“If the rule were, you cannot be considered a conservative, or even palatable to any conservatives under any circumstances if you have operated in or especially made a profit in any area that isn’t 100 percent governed by free market, no one would qualify," Lee said. "The truth is there are so many things, especially in the post-Obamacare world, where the market isn’t really free.”

