President-elect Trump announced Tuesday that he will nominate Dr. Mehmet Oz to be the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator in January.
“America is facing a health care crisis, and there is no doctor more qualified and capable than Dr. Oz to make America healthy again,” Trump said in a statement. “He is a renowned physician, heart surgeon, inventor, and world-class communicator, who has been at the forefront of healthy living for decades.”
“Dr. Oz will work with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to combat the disease industrial complex, and all the terrible chronic diseases it leaves behind,” the statement added. “Our broken health care system hurts everyday Americans, and crushes our nation’s budget.”
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Former U.S. President Donald Trump stands behind Mehmet Oz, Republican U.S. Senate candidate for Pennsylvania, during a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, U.S., Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022. (Michelle Gustafson/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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