In a fresh-picked announcement yesterday Donald Trump named Mehmet Oz (the well-known tv-doc) as his choice to lead Medicare and Medicaid Services. The ex-senate runner will team-up with Robert F Kennedy Jr whos been tapped for Health Services chief
Our broken Healthcare System harms everyday Americans‚ and crushes our Countryʼs budget
The duo got a big task ahead - fixing what Trump calls the “illness industrial complex“; their job includes managing health-care programs that help about 140-million people (mostly seniors over 65 and low-income folks)
The soon-to-be health-care chief lost his penn senate run back in 22 but Trump didnt forget about him. Now theyll work on: waste clean-up‚ fraud-fighting and dealing with long-term sickness issues. The ex-president says Medicare wont get cuts but Medicaid might see changes when current money runs out in late 25
The agency also runs Obama-era insurance marketplaces which Republicans tried to remove before - now they just want to re-do them. Its worth noting that Dr Oz will handle both federal Medicare stuff and state-level Medicaid programs: these need careful work between local and national governments