'Clown show': Critics mock Trump's pick of Dr. Oz to run Medicare and Medicaid

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : "Trump just named Dr. Oz to serve as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator," wrote Mother Jones D.C. bureau chief David Corn on X. "Oz once was a major booster of a top spreader of Covid misinformation.
43% : "Trump just nominated Dr. Oz to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator, which ... honestly sounds better for progressives than Seema Verma" -- the far-right and controversial former CMS director in the previous Trump administration, who became notorious for giving states waivers to cut Medicaid coverage.
24% : (Shutterstock.com)Donald Trump made yet another controversial nomination on Tuesday by announcing celebrity TV Dr. Mehmet Oz to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agency that administers health coverage to tens of millions of elderly and low-income people.
20% : Former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum, a longtime critic of Trump, quipped, "It's part of the drive for government efficiency, Dr Oz can lead Medicare to substitute inexpensive and all-natural green-coffee extract for costly kidney dialysis and chemotherapy.

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