Trump picks Dr. Oz to run Medicare, Medicaid services

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : The incoming president said Oz, a famed heart surgeon, will be tasked with working alongside Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the vaccine skeptic whom Trump has nominated to be the next Secretary of Health and Human Services.
56% : As administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Oz will lead the federal health programs that provide those services to tens of millions of retirees, children and poor people, or about half of all Americans, Trump said.
55% : He's the latest in a string of telegenic nominations from Trump, who has already tapped Fox News weekend host Pete Hegseth to run the Department of Defense and Fox Business host Sean Duffy as Secretary of Transportation.
35% : "There may be no physician more qualified and capable than Dr. Oz to Make America Healthy Again," Trump said in a statement posted on social media.
28% : Trump said Oz would need to slash costs, especially after Elon Musk has threatened to cut about $2 trillion in annual federal spending as head of a newly created Department of Government Efficiency.
27% : "He will also cut waste and fraud within our nation's most expensive agency," Trump said of Oz.

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