AXIOS November 19, 2024
President-elect Trump has picked doctor and TV personality Mehmet Oz to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), he announced on Tuesday.
Why it matters: Oz is a household name and became a Trump world ally during a failed 2022 Senate run. But he has no experience running a large government bureaucracy like CMS, which administers Medicare and Medicaid and conducts other services like inspecting nursing homes.
Driving the news: “There may be no Physician more qualified and capable than Dr. Oz to Make America Healthy Again,” Trump said in a statement, referring to a slogan popularized Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- Kennedy, Trump’s pick to run the Department of Health and Human Services, would be Oz’s boss...
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