Trump picks Mehmet Oz to run Medicare and Medicaid agency
Oz, who has been criticized for promoting false and misleading claims about health and science, is Trump's pick to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday he will nominate Mehmet Oz, a former Pennsylvania Senate candidate and TV personality, to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
"He is an eminent Physician, Heart Surgeon, Inventor, and World-Class Communicator, who has been at the forefront of healthy living for decades," Trump said in a statement, adding that Oz would work alongside Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist whom Trump wants to head the Department of Health and Human Services.
In his own statement, Oz said that he was "honored" by Trump's announcement. "I look forward to serving my country to Make America Healthy Again under the leadership of HHS Secretary @RobertKennedyJr," he wrote on X.
Oz, a cardiothoracic surgeon, praised Trump for picking Kennedy in a post on Instagram last week, saying Kennedy, the former independent presidential candidate, “will help our nation address the illness industrial complex that holds our health hostage.”
Like Kennedy, Oz has faced criticism over the years for promoting misleading and false claims about health and science.
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