The newly elected president of the United States, Donald Trump, announced that he will run for office on Tuesday Mehmet Ozformer Pennsylvania Senate candidate and television personality, to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
“He is an outstanding physician, heart surgeon, inventor and world-class communicator who has been at the forefront of healthy living for decades,” Trump said. etcas it helpsdefinitionHe added that he would work with Oz Robert F. Kennedy Jr.The anti-vaccination activist Trump wants to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
In his statement, he said that he was “honored” by Trump’s statement. “I look forward to serving my country to make America healthy again under the leadership of HHS Secretary @RobertKennedyJr,” he said. He wrote in X.
Oz, a cardiothoracic surgeon, praised Trump for choosing Kennedy Write on Instagram Kennedy, a former independent presidential candidate, said last week that he would “help our nation tackle the disease industrial complex that is holding our health hostage.”
Like Kennedy, Oz has faced criticism over the years for promoting misleading and false claims about health and science.
In 2020, it was brought under control anti-malaria campaign Hydroxychloroquine drug to treat Covid-19. And in 2014 British Medical Journal In 2013, he questioned his medical advice in a study that examined the recommendations he gave in 40 randomly selected episodes of his show. The researchers found case studies or other evidence to support only 46% of the 80 recommendations.
Among the criticisms of some of his medical advice, Oz told NBC News a 2015 interview he said the goal of his show is “not to talk about medicine,” but that “there are segments I do that I can take back.”
During Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, Oz’s “The Dr. “Oz Show” television program. to reveal the results of his physical examination.
The TV show Oz aired from 2009 to 2022 A failed bid for the Senate. He lost to John Fetterman, who flipped his seat for the Democrats.
The government position Oz is seeking requires Senate approval.
Fetterman said Oz is open to taking the CMS post.
“I’m not going to have a reflex to say, ‘Kill that guy,’ because he ran against me for the Senate,” Fetterman told NBC News. “It’s about having a conversation and learning.”
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is responsible for providing more than 160 million people with state-based health insurance through the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which provides coverage to children whose families earn enough to qualify for Medicare, Medicaid, and Medicaid.
On Tuesday, Trump said Oz will “be a leader in promoting disease prevention, so we get the best results in the world for every dollar we spend on health care in our Great Country.”
“It will also reduce waste and fraud at our Nation’s most expensive Government Agency, which accounts for a third of our nation’s Health Care spending and a quarter of our entire National Budget,” Trump said.
For the first time, the agency is negotiating drug prices for the most expensive prescription drugs under Medicare.
In August, CMS announced new prices for the first round of negotiations on 10 drugs under the Inflation Reduction Act. By February, the government is expected to announce the next 15 drugs for negotiation. It is unclear what Trump’s position is on the ongoing negotiations, which the drug companies are fighting in court.