Trump Taps Dr. Mehmet Oz to Run Medicare and Medicaid

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : CMS is the federal agency that provides health coverage to more than 160 million through Medicare, Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program, and the Health Insurance Marketplace.
51% : Nov. 19, 2024 -- President-elect Donald J. Trump has said that he would nominate Dr. Mehmet Oz to serve as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
32% : The announcement comes just days after Trump announced he would nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic, as secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS).
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 said in a statement sent Tuesday to multiple media outlets.
16% : "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 posted on Truth Social.

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