Trump picks TV personality and former Senate candidate Mehmet Oz to run Medicare and Medicaid agency
NBCDec 04, 2024
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).
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.
The American people have for too long been contaminated by the healthcare establishment, which is why Trump has nominated a man with both brains and anti-establishment beliefs. Dr. Oz is a remarkably qualified surgeon who has also spent his life publicly advocating for healthy living. Between Oz and RFK Jr., the bloated and inefficient health bureacracy will finally work for the benefit of the American people.