
Trump Selects Dr Oz as CMS Administrator
President-elect Donald Trump will nominate heart surgeon turned television personality and politician Mehmet Oz, MD, also known as Dr Oz, to lead CMS.
President-elect Donald Trump will nominate heart surgeon turned television personality and politician Mehmet Oz, MD, also known as Dr Oz, to lead CMS.
In a
Trump added that Oz will "cut waste and fraud within our country's most expensive government agency, which is a third of our nation's health care spend and a quarter of our entire national budget."
In 2022, Oz
"During the pandemic, I learned that when you mix politics and medicine, you get politics instead of solutions," Oz wrote. "That's why I'm running for the US Senate: to help fix the problems and to help us heal."
He earned Trump's
Prior to his political ventures, Oz
However, his advice was considered deceiving. During a Senate committee hearing in 2014, lawmakers
His controversial medical advice was later used against him by political opponent Fetterman, who
"I have known Dr Oz for many years, and I am confident he will fight to ensure everyone in America receives the best possible health care so our country can be great and healthy again," Trump wrote in his post.
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