Another TV personality is being nominated for a Senate-confirmed role in President-elect Trump’s administration.
Trump has nominated Dr. Mehmet Oz to serve as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which runs Medicare, Medicaid, and other healthcare functions.
Oz, of course, hosted a daytime talk show for years before exiting to run for an open Senate seat in Pennsylvania in 2022. He lost that seat to John Fetterman.
“America is facing a Healthcare Crisis, and there may be no Physician more qualified and capable than Dr. Oz to Make America Healthy Again,” Trump said in a statement. “He is an eminent Physician, Heart Surgeon, Inventor, and World-Class Communicator, who has been at the forefront of healthy living for decades. 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.”
More to come.
