Trump selects Dr. Oz to lead Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Dr. Mehmet Oz as his pick to be the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
“America is facing a Healthcare Crisis, and there may be no Physician more qualified and capable than Dr. Oz to Make America Healthy Again. He is an eminent Physician, Heart Surgeon, Inventor, and World-Class Communicator, who has been at the forefront of healthy living for decades. Dr. Oz will work closely with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to take on the illness industrial complex, and all the horrible chronic diseases left in its wake,” Trump said in a statement.
“He will also cut waste and fraud within our Country’s most expensive Government Agency, which is a third of our Nation’s Healthcare spend, and a quarter of our entire National Budget,” Trump added.
Dr. Oz is a cardiothoracic surgeon and television personality, who also ran for the US Senate in Pennsylvania as a Republican and lost. The 64-year-old is an Ohio native who attended medical school at the University of Pennsylvania. He rose to fame as a frequent guest of Oprah Winfrey, eventually launching his own syndicated daytime TV talk show in 2009. He also has connections to Trump. In 2018, Trump appointed Oz to the Presidential Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition, reappointing him to the position in 2020.
CMS oversees everything to do with Medicare and Medicaid, as well as the Affordable Care Act exchanges, which provide health care coverage to more than 150 million people. It is under the umbrella of Department of Health and Human Services, which will be helmed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. if he’s confirmed by the Senate.
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