When they heard that Chang was the preferred choice of the Hau cabinet to be director of the DOH, the DPP and the opposition forces in Chiayi fought against the idea, believing that Chang should not abandon her "oppositional" oversight role, and that she was being "coopted" by the ruling party.
在傳出張博雅是郝內閣屬意的衛生署長時，民進黨以及嘉義市在野力量曾經反彈，認為張博雅不應放棄「在野」的監督立場，而被執政黨「收編」。