President-elect Donald Trump announced on Nov. 19 that he will nominate famed television personality Dr. Mehmet Oz as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
CMS handles matters related to those entitlement programs.
In a statement, Trump cited Oz’s work as a physician and heart surgeon and other talents. He also noted Oz being an alum of Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Wharton Business School, the latter of which Trump is an alum.
Trump said Oz will “work closely” with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his nominee for Health and Human Services secretary, “to take on the illness industrial complex, and all the horrible chronic diseases left in its wake.”
Additionally, Trump said, “Oz will also cut waste and fraud within our country’s most expensive government agency, which is a third of our Nation’s Healthcare spend, and a quarter of our entire national budget.”
Oz was the host of “The Dr. Oz Show” between 2009 and 2022.
Oz, who is of Turkish descent, was the GOP nominee in Pennsylvania for Senate in 2022, losing to Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.). Oz was endorsed by Trump.
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From The Epoch Times