Trump picks TV’s Dr Oz to run Medicare and Medicaid
The celebrity doctor will work closely with RFK Jnr, whom the US president-elect has picked to lead the top US health agency
US president-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he had chosen celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz to serve as administrator for the Centres for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Oz, known as “Dr Oz”, unsuccessfully ran for the US Senate in 2022.
Trump, who endorsed Oz in that race, said he would work closely with Robert F. Kennedy Jnr, who has been nominated to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
Trump said the pair would take on “the illness industrial complex, and all the horrible chronic diseases left in its wake” as well as cutting what he called waste and fraud.
“Our broken Healthcare System harms everyday Americans, and crushes our Country’s budget,” Trump said in a statement.
The agency runs Medicare, the federal health insurance programme for people aged 65 or older and the disabled.
