Washington Post Article RatingWhat to know about Dr. Oz, the TV physician Trump tapped to run Medicare
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10% Center
- Reliability
65% ReliableFair
- Policy Leaning
10% Center
- Politician Portrayal
25% Positive
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The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
58% : During his Senate campaign, he said abortion laws should be left to states.57% : He has shared health opinions with Trump for years now; in 2020, both were advocates of hydroxychloroquine as a covid-19 treatment despite the lack of evidence for its efficacy.
53% : Oz has said he is in favor of expanding Medicare Advantage, in which participants enroll in health plans provided by private health insurers.
49% : What is his new position as CMS administrator?Return to menuThe Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator oversees the two biggest federal health-care programs, Medicare, which provide health insurance to 66 million people mostly 65 and over, and Medicaid, which partners with states to cover 72 million lower-income people, as well as the Children's Health Insurance Program, which covers 7 million minors.
33% : It falls within the Health and Human Services Department, which Trump has chosen Robert F. Kennedy Jr., another figure with controversial views on health and science, to lead.
32% : What are Dr. Oz's health views?Return to menuWhen announcing Oz's appointment, Trump said he would "take on the illness industrial complex" and incentivize disease prevention, while also cutting "waste and fraud" from the CMS budget.
29% : President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that his pick to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is Mehmet Oz, better known as Dr. Oz, the former daytime television fixture and failed Republican Senate candidate.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.