Trump nominates Dr Mehmet Oz to serve as Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator

President-elect Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he has nominated Dr Mehmet Ozto serve as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator.

“America is facing a healthcare Crisis, and there may be no Physician more qualified and capable than Dr. Oz to Make America Healthy Again” Trump said in a statement.

Trump added: “He is an eminent Physician, Heart Surgeon, Inventor, and World-Class Communicator, who has been at the forefront of healthy living for decades. Dr. Oz will work closely with Robert F Kennedy Jr. to take on the illness industrial complex, and all the horrible chronic diseases left in its wake.”

Oz ran an unsuccessful campaign for senator in Pennsylvania in 2022.