Trump Names TV Doctor Mehmet Oz as Medicare, Medicaid Chief
- CMS oversees health coverage for over 100 million Americans
- RFK Jr.’s comment on X: “Welcome Dr. Oz to The Avengers”
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President-elect Donald Trump nominated celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, an agency that manages $1.7 trillion in annual spending for federal programs insuring more than one-third of Americans.
“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 Tuesday. “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.”