Healthcare DIVE November 19, 2024
On Truth Social, President-elect Donald Trump said Oz, who is best known for his eponymous TV show, would take on the “illness industrial complex.”
President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Dr. Mehmet Oz, a physician, TV personality and former Republican candidate for Senate, to run Medicare and Medicaid as administrator for the 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,” Trump said in his announcement on social media platform Truth Social.
The CMS oversees the healthcare coverage of more than 160 million Americans, or around half the U.S. population, through Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program and Affordable Care Act plans.
Federal health...