Dr. Mehmet OZ confirmed to guide Medicare and Medicaid

The US Senate, which leads the agency who monitors the healthcare system of millions of Americans, was confirmed that the celebrity doctor and the former TV moderator Mehmet OZ were confirmed.

OZ, who has never held a public office, was selected by President Donald Trump last year to lead the centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

The 64-year-old, whose approaches were examined, was trained as a surgeon before appearing at Oprah Winfrey Show in the early 2000s.

Health experts previously criticized OZ by promoting what they consider to be a bad health consultancy Weight loss medication And “Miracle Cures” and the suggestions of Malaria medication could be used as a remedy for Covid-19 at the beginning of pandemic.

He was confirmed to the government on Thursday by the Republican US Senate by a party line of 53-45.

After you have selected OZ to lead CMSTrump said in an explanation there: “There is no doctor qualified and capable … to make America well again”.

Before his inauguration, Trump’s transition team said that OZ would “closely work together with the US health minister Robert F. Kennedy Jr.” in order to “accept the industrial complex of the disease”.

The CMS supervises the country’s largest health programs and delivers about half of the Americans.

It regulates health insurance and determines politics that leads prices that receive doctors, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies for medical services.

In 2023, the US government gave more than 1.4.

OZ also organized Dr. OZ Show, in which he offered the spectators from 2009 to 2022 health advice.

But he was examined because he had recommended homeopathy, alternative medicine and other treatments that critics described as “pseudosciences”.

The Democrats previously claimed a review of his financial documents that OZ may not have paid 403,739 US dollars from Medicare at more than 10 million dollars from its media company between 2021 and 2023.

However, an OZ spokesman said that a review of the office for the ethics of the government officials found that he had complied with the law.