{"id":127903,"date":"2024-11-20T05:08:14","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T22:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=127903"},"modified":"2024-11-20T05:08:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T22:08:14","slug":"trump-picks-mehmet-oz-to-run-medicare-and-medicaid-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=127903","title":{"rendered":"Trump picks Mehmet Oz to run Medicare and Medicaid agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\">President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday said that he will nominate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/elections\/dr-oz-celebrity-physician-launches-campaign-senate-pa-republican-n1285109\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mehmet Oz<\/a>, a former Pennsylvania Senate candidate and TV doctor, to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;He is an eminent Physician, Heart Surgeon, Inventor, and World-Class Communicator, who has been at the forefront of healthy living for decades,&#8221; Trump said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/113511606000227032\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a>, adding that Oz would work alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/trump-picks-rfk-jr-anti-vaccine-activist-health-human-services-secreta-rcna180182\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/a>, an anti-vaccine activist who Trump wants to head the Department of Health and Human Services, to &#8220;take on the illness industrial complex.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Oz, a cardiothoracic surgeon, faced\u00a0criticism\u00a0in 2020, for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bgrlabcBaHg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">promoting\u00a0the anti-malaria<\/a> drug hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Oz\u2019s TV show aired from 2009 until 2022, when he made an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2022-election\/pennsylvania-senate-midterm-2022-john-fetterman-wins-election-rcna54935\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unsuccessful bid for Senate<\/a>. Oz was defeated by John Fetterman, who flipped the seat for Democrats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The government position Oz is seeking requires Senate confirmation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Trump made an appearance on Oz\u2019s television program, \u201cThe Dr. Oz Show,\u201d during his 2016 presidential campaign<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2016-election\/hillary-clinton-releases-additional-medical-information-n648481\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0to reveal the results of his physical examination<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">CMS is the agency responsible for providing government-based health insurance to more than 160 million people through Medicare, Medicaid and the Children\u2019s Health Insurance Program, which provides coverage to children whose families earn too much to qualify for Medicaid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Trump\u2019s announcement comes as the agency for the first time negotiates drug prices on the costliest prescription drugs under Medicare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"endmark\">The CMS announced the new prices of its first round of negotiations on 10 drugs, as mandated by the Inflation Reduction Act, in August. By February, the government is expected to announce the next 15 drugs up for negotiations. It\u2019s unclear what Trump\u2019s position is on the ongoing negotiations, which are being contested in court by drug companies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\/trump-picks-tv-personality-former-senate-candidate-mehmet-oz-run-medic-rcna180880\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday said that he will nominate Mehmet Oz, a former Pennsylvania Senate candidate and TV doctor, to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. &#8220;He &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=127903\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}