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On Tuesday, Nov. 19, President-elect Donald Trump announced that he would nominate Mehmet Oz, M.D., to be the next Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). POLITICO’s Ben Leonard wrote on Tuesday afternoon that “President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Mehmet Oz, the celebrity physician and TV personality known as Dr. Oz, to be administrator of CMS. During the pandemic, Dr. Oz, 64, pushed unproven theories about Covid-19 cures, including hydroxychloroquine, that caught Trump’s eye. In 2022, Oz ran unsuccessfully for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, losing to now-Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.).”
In a statement released on Tuesday, Trump said that “Dr. Oz will work closely with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to take on the illness industrial complex, and all the horrible chronic diseases left in its wake. Dr. Oz will be a leader in incentivizing Disease Prevention, so we get the best results in the World for every dollar we spend on Healthcare in our Great Country.”