President-elect Donald Trump announced this Tuesday the appointment of Dr. Mehmet Oz, known as Dr. Oz on his television programs, as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the health social assistance programs for seniors and disabled people. low resources.
“The United States is facing a health care crisis and there may be no doctor more qualified and capable than Dr. Oz to make America healthy again,” the former president said in a statement about the controversial surgeon. who throughout his career has advocated for various pseudosciences.
Among others, he is a defender of alternative medicine, faith healing and various paranormal beliefs, a situation that has brought him criticism from numerous medical publications.
According to Trump, Oz is “an eminent physician, cardiac surgeon, inventor and world-class communicator who has been at the forefront of healthy living for decades.”
Oz will work closely with Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the former presidential candidate known for his vaccine conspiracy theories, who was nominated last week as the future health secretary.
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In the statement, Trump – who won the election on November 5 and will take office as president on January 20 – stated that the health care system is “broken”, “harming ordinary Americans and crushing the budget” of the country.
Oz will thus dedicate himself, he stated, to reducing “waste” and “fraud”, within “the most expensive government agency” in the United States, which represents “a third of the country’s health care spending” and “a quarter ” from the national budget, he assured.
The son of Turkish immigrants, Oz grew up in Wilmington, Delaware, and graduated from Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania.
Television career
Mehmet Oz began his television career on the Discovery Channel series ‘Second opinion with Dr. Oz’ and was a regular guest on ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’,
In 2009 he created ‘The Dr. Oz Show’, a daily television program on medical and health topics that lasted 13 seasons.
Oz recently attempted to make his jump into politics and ran for the 2022 US Senate election in Pennsylvania.
He lost the race to John Fetterman, even though Trump had publicly shown his support for him.
With information from EFE
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