Trump Nominates Dr. Oz to Lead CMS

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Oz's nomination is emblematic of the Republican Party's shifting stance on Medicare and Medicaid.
55% : Bush also signed the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, which added prescription drug benefits (Part D) and embraced private insurers as partners in an ostensible attempt to reducing costs.
50% : On Tuesday, President-elect Donald Trump tapped Mehmet Oz, the celebrity physician and former Senate candidate, to head the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
46% : Oz ventured into politics in 2022 with an unsuccessful Senate bid in Pennsylvania, during which he championed a "Medicare Advantage for All" plan, expanding the privatized version of Medicare.
36% : Many conservatives initially viewed Medicare and Medicaid as costly expansions of government.
32% : In his latest platform, Trump vowed to "fight for and protect social security and Medicare with no cuts, including no changes to the retirement age."
31% : At the time, they criticized Medicare as a step toward "socialized medicine."
27% : Accusations of fraud and waste in the CMS likely stem from concerns about improper payments, overbilling, and inefficiencies within programs such as Medicare and Medicaid.

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