Dr. Oz of TV confirmed to guide Medicare and Medicaid after the controversial Trump Pick
A former heart surgeon and a celebrity doctor was chosen to guide the centers for Medicate AND Medicaid Services (CMS) – The health service for millions of disadvantaged Americans.
Mehmet Oz64, was confirmed for the position by the Senate controlled by the Republicans as part of a reduction in the health system. He will manage health insurance programs for about half of the country, with the supervision of the medicine, Medicoid or Affordable Care Act coverage.
His appointment comes while the Trump administration considers to make cuts to the Medicaid program, which provides coverage to millions of poor and disabled people Americans.
Oz, he told senators in March that he favored the work requirements for the recipients of Medicaid, but said that the waste was not fundamental to reaffirm the state of the workers or to block people to remain registered.
“We have to make some important decisions to improve the quality of the care,” he said at that moment.
Oz has grown up to a remarkable fame through the hosting of the Dr Oz Show, sometimes offering controversial health tips to spectators from 2009 to 2022. This included suggesting that malaria drugs were an effective cure for Covid-19 at the beginning of the pandemic.
The heart surgeon of the University of Colombia has also praised the recent boom of drugs for weight loss such as Ozempic and Wegovy to fight obesity in America-with the dismay of his closest critic and new garment Robert F Kennedy Jr.
Although he has favored a close relationship with the new health secretary, I disagree with the use of drugs for weight loss and Kennedy Jr. maintains his catalog of reluctant health.
He regularly hosted the secretary of health and his internal circle in his home in Florida. And he leaned on the Kennedy campaign to “make America healthy”, an effort to redesign the nation’s food supply, reject the mandates of vaccines and question some consolidated scientific research.
Oz has yet to declare whether it opposes the cuts speculated to the program financed by the government.
Tuesday, thousands of staff members at the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for the control and prevention of diseases and the National Institutes for Health have been fired.
The CMS should lose about 300 staff members following the cuts this week.
The Independent He contacted the Department of Health and Human Services of the United States for a comment.
