What to know about Dr. Mehmet Oz, Trump's pick to lead Medicare and Medicaid

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

77% : In a 2016 appearance on "The Dr. Oz Show," Trump said his wife, Melania Trump, was "a big fan" of the show.
72% : Trump appointed Oz to the President's Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition during his first term.
69% : Trump agreed.
66% : They know him, believe in him, and trust him," Trump said when he endorsed Oz.
65% : After that, they saw each other intermittently at social events before Oz interviewed Trump about his health during the 2016 presidential campaign.
60% : Oz and Trump have a long personal historyOz told The Associated Press in a 2022 interview that he first met Trump in 2004 or 2005 when he asked Trump to use his golf course for an event for Oz's children's charity.
56% : Mehmet Oz, a celebrity heart surgeon turned talk show host and lifestyle guru, is President-elect Donald Trump's pick to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the massive federal health care bureaucracy that covers more than a third of Americans.
56% : He would oversee a massive agencyIf confirmed by the Senate to lead CMS, Oz would oversee Medicare, Medicaid, children's health insurance and the Affordable Care Act, better known as "Obamacare."

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