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US Pres.-elect Donald Trump has nominated celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz, known as Dr. Oz, to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Alongside medicare and medicaid, CMS, which is under the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), manages the Affordable Care Act marketplaces. In total, it oversees the health insurance of 155M Americans.

Oz is a cardiologist and professor emeritus at Columbia University. He ran for US Senate in 2022 but was defeated by Democrat John Fetterman, who tweeted that he would vote to confirm Oz's appointment if he vowed to protect Medicare and Medicaid.

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Oz, who holds a degree from Harvard as well as a joint medical and business degree from the University of Pennsylvania, has been criticized for promoting drugs like hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine to treat COVID.

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Regarding health insurance, he has advocated for a universal health coverage model centered on private Medicare Advantage plans, a proposal that deviates from traditional conservative health policies.

If confirmed by the Senate, he will be in charge of an agency that has 6.5K employees and spends roughly $1.5T annually. He would also work under HHS Secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr., should they both be confirmed.

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If confirmed by the Senate, he will be in charge of an agency that has 6.5K employees and spends roughly $1.5T annually. He would also work under HHS Secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who must also be confirmed.

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