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FILE - Mehmet Oz visits the AW Driving School & License Testing Center successful Allentown, Pa., Sept. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
President-elect Donald Trump announced connected Tuesday that tv property and surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz volition pb the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, an bureau which is liable for overseeing wellness security sum for much than 150 cardinal Americans and has an yearly spending of $2.6 trillion.
Oz had an unsuccessful tally for the US Senate successful 2022 from Pennsylvania and helium was endorsed by Trump. He mislaid to Democratic Senator John Fetterman. The president-elect said that Oz volition enactment intimately with Robert F Kennedy Jr. who was nominated to pb the Department of Health and Human Services.
“I person known Dr. Oz for galore years, and I americium assured helium volition combat to guarantee everyone successful America receives the champion imaginable Healthcare, truthful our Country tin beryllium Great and Healthy Again!” Trump said successful a connection connected Tuesday.
“Dr. Oz volition beryllium a person successful incentivizing Disease Prevention, truthful we get the champion results successful the World for each dollar we walk connected Healthcare successful our Great Country,” Trump further added.
Oz, a cardiothoracic surgeon and tv personality, was appointed to the Presidential Council connected Sports, Fitness and Nutrition successful 2018 by Trump, portion the president-elect reappointed him to the presumption successful 2020.
I americium honored to beryllium nominated by @realDonaldTrump to pb CMS. I look guardant to serving my state to Make America Healthy Again nether the enactment of HHS Secretary @RobertKennedyJr. pic.twitter.com/aYIQJHG5Ej
— Dr. Mehmet Oz (@DrOz) November 19, 2024
Oz thanked Trump successful a societal media station connected X and said that helium was honoured with the information and volition enactment nether the enactment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
“I americium honored to beryllium nominated by DonaldTrump to pb CMS. I look guardant to serving my state to Make America Healthy Again nether the enactment of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr,” helium said successful the post.
Oz utilized to often look connected TV arsenic a impermanent of Oprah Winfrey and yet launched his ain TV speech amusement successful 2009 named “The Dr. Oz Show”. The amusement won aggregate Emmy Awards and was watched by millions of radical which became 1 of the reasons that Oz roseate to fame and became 1 of the astir known doctors successful the US.
The bureau runs Medicare, the national wellness security programme for radical aged 65 oregon older and the disabled, reported Reuters.
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