Breaking: Trump Chooses Former Star TV Host to Lead Medicare and Medicaid Agencies

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : ""CMS operates or oversees health-care programs that provide coverage to about one out of every two Americans, including Medicare, Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program, and the Obamacare marketplace exchange Healthcare.gov."Those four programs account for $1.6 trillion in spending, or nearly 25 percent of the entire federal budget.
51% : "I am very pleased to nominate Dr. Mehmet Oz," Trump announced Tuesday.
50% : "However, the Times added, "he has weighed in on Medicare policy, coauthoring a 2020 opinion column in Forbes arguing for a universal health coverage system, in which every American not covered by Medicaid would be enrolled in a private Medicare Advantage plan" that would be paid for with a 20 percent payroll tax.
44% : In 2022, he ran for the U.S. Senate, but lost to Democrat John Fetterman, despite securing an endorsement from Trump.
37% : "But he has no experience running a large government bureaucracy like CMS, which administers Medicare and Medicaid and conducts other services like inspecting nursing homes.
36% : President-elect Donald Trump has announced that he is nominating Dr. Mehmet Oz to join his administration as Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator.
32% : "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 posted Tuesday on Truth Social.

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