Trump picks Dr. Oz to lead Medicare and Medicaid - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : Trump appeared on that show during his 2016 campaign and presented Oz with the clean bill of health that Trump received from his physician.
45% : Right-wing think tanks and policy experts have suggested moving more people to privatized Medicare, or Medicare Advantage, and cutting costs in Medicaid through work requirements, block grants and other reforms.
39% : People on Medicaid would not be affected.
32% : Oz has also taken stances that place him at odds with Trump and others in his health care orbit.
24% : While Trump promised during his presidential campaign not to cut Medicare's budget, he has not publicly discussed his plans for Medicaid, the program for millions of low-income Americans.
22% : "At CMS, Trump said Oz will incentivize disease prevention and "cut waste and fraud within our Country's most expensive Government Agency."
20% : In March 2020, Oz suggested that the U.S. should copy China's zero-tolerance Covid-19 lockdowns, even as Trump and other conservatives later cast lockdowns as potentially worse than the pandemic itself.
18% : "Dr. Oz will work closely with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to take on the illness industrial complex, and all the horrible chronic diseases left in its wake," Trump said in a statement.

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