Trump taps TV personality Dr. Mehmet Oz to lead Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services operates under the Department of Health and Human Services, which Trump has already selected Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to lead.
62% : It operates or oversees health care programs that provide coverage to about half of all Americans, including Medicare, Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program and the Affordable Care Act marketplace exchange.
59% : Trump reportedly paid attention to Oz's television appearances during the COVID-19 pandemic and he became an informal advisor to the then-president.
55% : President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday he will nominate television personality Dr. Mehmet Oz to serve as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator.
37% : Oz promoted using the malaria drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine to treat COVID-19, a theory that was debunked but spread by Trump and others for months.
34% : "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 a statement.
17% : "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.

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