Trump plans to nominate Dr. Mehmet Oz to oversee Medicare, Medicaid and Obamacare - West Hawaii Today

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Trump noted that Oz had "won nine Daytime Emmy Awards hosting 'The Dr. Oz Show,' where he taught millions of Americans how to make healthier lifestyle choices.
56% : The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services oversee several of the country's largest government programs, providing health coverage to more than 150 million Americans.
53% : Oz will also be pressed to outline an agenda for Medicaid, the joint federal-state program that covers more than 70 million poor and disabled Americans.
53% : The agency also oversees insurance marketplaces established by the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare.
52% : But Oz has weighed in on Medicare policy, helping to write 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.
51% : "CMS touches virtually every family in America through Medicaid and Medicare, and it's probably the most challenging technical, policy and political job in government," said Drew Altman, the president of KFF, a health research group.
48% : President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday that he would nominate Dr. Mehmet Oz, the author and former television host, to serve as the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a powerful agency that oversees health insurance programs covering more than 150 million Americans.
48% : Trump unsuccessfully tried to overturn large portions of the law during his first term, and has been vague about his ambitions for it now.
18% : "In a statement announcing his choice, Trump said that Oz would "work closely with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to take on the illness industrial complex, and all the horrible chronic diseases left in its wake."

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