Dr. Oz's Main Credential: Pretending Trump Is Super Healthy

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

85% : Oz's main qualification is pretending before a live TV audience that Trump had provided convincing evidence that he is in excellent health.
57% : "I view this as, in a way, going to see my doctor," Trump said.
55% : Donald Trump has appointed daytime TV doctor Mehmet Oz to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
55% : Afterward, Oz did the media rounds, assuring the American public that Trump was "healthy enough to be president" (though he hadn't done a real exam), and it was totally appropriate to reveal his medical records on a daytime TV show.
54% : Oz did not push back when Trump cited waving his hands around during speeches as a form of exercise; when he said he felt as healthy as Tom Brady; or when he asserted that their on-air chat was basically a medical exam.
43% : "Instead, the key moment came when Oz -- who Oprah Winfrey had dubbed "America's doctor" -- asked the presidential candidate, "If your health is as strong as it seems ... why not share your medical records?"Trump looked to the audience and said, "Well, I have really no problem doing it.
40% : But those dubious credentials are not why Trump is putting him in charge of an agency that oversees health insurance programs covering more than 150 million Americans.
39% : People did not trust this hyperbolic assessment (which we later learned was dictated by Trump) so that September, Trump had a visit with Oz.
38% : As Wired noted at the time, "What counts politically as 'medical records' varies," and Trump wasn't the only recent presidential candidate criticized for his lack of health transparency.
38% : But while a scrupulous doctor might level with us about our failing health care system, Oz will just say whatever Trump wants us to hear.
37% : Though this all seems a bit quaint now, when Trump was first running for president back in 2016, people were appalled that he had not released his full medical records as promised.
12% : "This 2016 appearance, which came as Trump was trying to frame Hillary Clinton as too feeble for office, is far from Oz's only favor to the president-elect.

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