Trump taps television personality Dr. Mehmet Oz to lead key Medicare and Medicaid agency

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Washington -- President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he has selected Dr. Mehmet Oz -- a celebrity heart surgeon who hosted a daytime television show -- to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
60% : Trump has selected Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for secretary of Health and Human Services.
56% : "More than 100 million Americans participate in the major programs that CMS oversees -- Medicare, Medicaid and CHIP -- according to the agency.
55% : The agency falls under the Department of Health and Human Services and oversees Medicare, the federal portion of the Medicaid program, the Children's Health Insurance Program and the federal health insurance marketplace.
32% : "America is facing a health care crisis, and there may be no physician more qualified and capable than Dr. Oz to make America healthy again," Trump said in a statement.

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