Trump to Nominate Dr. Mehmet Oz to Head Medicare, Medicaid

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : More than 150 million Americans now receive health care coverage from Medicare and Medicaid.
57% : "Americans need a director of Medicare and Medicaid who will operate with the utmost integrity," Robert Weissman, co-president of consumer advocate group Public Citizen, said in a statement.
56% : Trump also remarked that Oz had "won nine Daytime Emmy Awards hosting 'The Dr. Oz Show,' where he taught millions of Americans how to make healthier lifestyle choices.
53% : Trump already alarmed many last week with the announcement that he would appoint anti-vaccine activist Robert Kennedy Jr. to run the giant Health and Human Services Department, of which CMS is a part.
48% : TUESDAY, Nov. 19, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- President-elect Donald Trump says he will pick celebrity physician and former TV host Dr. Mehmet Oz to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which oversees both health insurance programs.
48% : As for the thorny issue of health care insurance, in 2020 Oz penned an opinion column in Forbes in which he called for a form of universal health coverage where any American not covered by Medicaid would be enrolled in a private Medicare Advantage plan.
41% : "They need someone who will crack down on insurers who want to deny care to the sick, providers who skimp on quality health care, corporations that want to privatize Medicare, and Big Pharma profiteers and ideologues who want to slash Medicaid and refuse care to low-income people.
17% : In a statement, Trump said that Oz will "work closely with Robert Kennedy Jr. to take on the illness industrial complex, and all the horrible chronic diseases left in its wake," The New York Times reported.

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