Trump nominates Dr. Oz to oversee Medicare, Medicaid as CMS head

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : Trump endorsed Oz during his campaign.
61% : 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.
41% : Millions of low-income people and children are being disenrolled from Medicaid after subsidies put in place during the COVID-19 public health emergency expired.
40% : In Medicare, lawmakers are contending with the program's looming insolvency, in addition to how to effectively regulate and stop fraud in privately run Medicare Advantage plans.
39% : 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.
36% : "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.
32% : Oz's nomination comes less than a week after Trump tapped prominent vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the HHS, which oversees the CMS.
20% : "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 wrote in his announcement.

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