Healthcare Innovation November 19, 2024
On Nov. 19, Donald Trump announced Mehmet Oz as his pick for CMS Administrator
On Tuesday, Nov. 19, President-elect Donald Trump announced that he would nominate Mehmet Oz, M.D., to be the next Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). POLITICO’s Ben Leonard wrote on Tuesday afternoon that “President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Mehmet Oz, the celebrity physician and TV personality known as Dr. Oz, to be administrator of CMS. During the pandemic, Dr. Oz, 64, pushed unproven theories about Covid-19 cures, including hydroxychloroquine, that caught Trump’s eye. In 2022, Oz ran unsuccessfully for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, losing to now-Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.).”
In a statement released on Tuesday, Trump said that “Dr. Oz will work...
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