President-elect Donald Trump announced the selection of Dr. Mehmet Oz to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
In a press release from the Trump-Vance transition team, President Trump praised Oz as a “distinguished physician, heart surgeon, inventor, and world-class communicator,” adding that Oz worked closely with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He added that he would continue to cooperate. He is President Trump's choice to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
“I am very pleased to appoint Dr. Mehmet Oz as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS),” President Trump said. “America is facing a medical crisis, and there may be no doctor more qualified and capable than Dr. Oz to make America healthy again. He is a renowned physician, heart surgeon, inventor, and world leader. A class communicator, she has been at the forefront of healthy living for decades.”
Mr. Oz and Mr. Kennedy will work closely together to “fight the disease-industrial complex and all the terrible chronic diseases it leaves in its wake,” Trump added in a statement.
The press release continued:
Our broken health care system is hurting ordinary Americans and straining the nation's budget. Dr. Oz will be a leader in encouraging disease prevention. That's why we get the best results in the world for every dollar we spend on our great nation's health care. He will also reduce waste and fraud within our nation's most expensive government agency, which accounts for a third of our health care costs and a quarter of our entire national budget.
Dr. Oz is a graduate of Harvard University and received joint MD and MBA degrees from my prestigious alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the Wharton School of Business. He rose to become professor of surgery at Columbia University, while also receiving numerous patents for his medical interventions, authoring more than 400 original publications, and numerous New York Times bestselling books.
He won nine Daytime Emmy Awards as host of “The Dr. Oz Show,” taught millions of Americans how to make healthy lifestyle choices, and became a major pillar of the MAHA movement. He gave a powerful statement. Dr. Oz and his wife Lisa founded HealthCorps, a nonprofit organization that has improved the lives of millions of underserved teens across the country over the past 20 years. We have expanded this initiative.
Oz previously ran against Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pennsylvania), who is running for Pennsylvania's Senate seat in the 2022 midterm elections, to replace retiring Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.). , ultimately defeated by Mr. Fetterman.
Fetterman received 51.2 percent of the vote and Oz received 46.3 percent of the vote. According to NBC News.
In an interview with Breitbart News Saturday Starting in October 2022, Oz will talk about how Pennsylvanians need “good-paying energy sector jobs” with livable wages, rather than having politicians focus on raising the minimum wage. talked about.
