Erin Burnett talks about the similarities between Trump’s other cabinet picks and Dr Oz. President-elect Donald Trump has appointed Dr. Mehmet Oz to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
A vital federal agency that regulates health insurance coverage for over 150 million Americans. CNN’s Erin Burnett investigates the relationships between Dr. Oz and Trump’s other cabinet selections.
Even in a health department that might be headed by another outlier, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the choice of Dr. Oz, who lost to John Fetterman in the 2022 Senate race for Pennsylvania, surprised many close observers of the agency.
Additionally, it carried on Mr. Trump’s strategy of appointing television personalities to lead federal agencies. Fox News and Fox Business had already employed his nominees from the Defense and Transportation Departments.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services oversee the country’s principal federal programs, which offer coverage to nearly 150 million people.
They oversee health insurance and establish guidelines for how much physicians, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies are paid for various medical services. The centers control around 25% of total federal spending.
The centers, including the Food and Drug Administration, National Institutes of Health, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, are part of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Despite their significance to the American health-care system, their work has sometimes been obscured by their affiliation with those high-profile departments.
C.M.S. touches practically every family in America via Medicaid and Medicare, and it is maybe the most difficult technical, policy, and political position in government, according to Drew Altman, head of the health research firm KFF.
At C.M.S., even seemingly trivial decisions have a billion-dollar impact on businesses and patients with life-threatening disorders who care deeply.
In his appointment announcement, Mr. Trump stated that Dr. Oz would “work closely with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to take on the illness industrial complex, and all the horrible chronic diseases left in its wake.
Trump tweeted that Dr Oz “won nine Daytime Emmy Awards hosting ‘The Dr Oz Show,’ where he taught millions of Americans how to make healthier lifestyle choices. Erin Burnett talks about the similarities between Trump’s other cabinet picks and Dr Oz
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