Trump picks Dr. Oz to lead massive Medicare, Medicaid agency CMS

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Trump picks Dr. Oz to lead massive Medicare, Medicaid agency CMS

Pennsylvania *********** U.S. Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz poses for a portrait outside of a poling location during the primary election in Rockledge, Pennsylvania, U.S. May 17, 2022. 

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President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would nominate Dr. Mehmet Oz, the celebrity TV host physician, to lead the

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CMS operates or oversees health-care programs that provide coverage to about 1 out of every 2 Americans, including Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the Obamacare marketplace exchange

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Those four programs account for $1.6 trillion in spending, or nearly 25% of the entire federal budget.

CMS is an agency within the Health and Human Services Department.

Trump last week said he would nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic and *********** theorist, as HHS secretary.

“Our broken Healthcare System harms everyday Americans, and crushes our Country’s budget,” Trump said in a statement announcing his intention to nominate Oz.

“Dr. Oz will be a leader in incentivizing ******** Prevention, so we get the best results in the World for every dollar we spend on Healthcare in our Great Country,” Trump said. “He will also cut waste and ****** within our Country’s most expensive Government Agency, which is a third of our Nation’s Healthcare spend, and a quarter of our entire National Budget.”

 Chiquita Brooks-LaSure is the current CMS administrator.

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