TV persona Dr. Oz is Donald Trump’s alternative to guide the Facilities for Medicare and Medicaid Companies, leaving social media customers horrified.
On Tuesday (November 19), President-Elect Donald Trump introduced that he was choosing Dr. Mehmet Oz, the previous movie star coronary heart surgeon who turned a tv persona earlier than stepping into politics. The transfer garnered a slew of responses from social media onlookers who have been appalled on the alternative, which aligns with Trump’s prior picks of tv personalities to fill the cupboard for his incoming presidential administration.
In a press release, Trump wrote that Oz would “work intently with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to tackle the sickness industrial advanced, and all of the horrible continual illnesses left in its wake.”
Oz’s repute grew after being featured on media mogul Oprah Winfrey’s long-running discuss present quite a few instances, which led to a by-product, The Dr. Oz Present, in 2009. That present lasted for 13 seasons, incomes him an Emmy Award.
He’s additionally written a number of books, and whereas he stopped performing surgical procedures in 2018, he’s nonetheless licensed as a physician in Pennsylvania. He misplaced to the present Democratic Senator, John Fetterman, in that state in 2022. Fetterman claimed in a submit on X, previously Twitter, that he’d assist Oz’s nomination: “If Dr. Oz is about defending and preserving Medicare and Medicaid, I’m voting for the dude.”
Oz and Trump have a definite bond, with Oz being on the President’s Council on Sports activities, Health, and Vitamin in Trump’s first time period. The response on social media to the selection of Dr. Oz left many involved. One consumer on X, previously Twitter, wrote, “America is as soon as once more the laughingstock of the world.”
Others pointed to his intensive historical past of his ties to corporations pushing false medical cures and of his push to denationalise Medicare. That stance is aligned with the Republican Celebration’s beforehand expressed goals of gutting Medicare and Medicaid. Extra identified how he was selling hydroxychloroquine as a drug to fight COVID-19 throughout the early days of the pandemic, which was confirmed false.
“CMS is a essential company & we’d like severe leaders to guard Individuals’ well being care and convey down prices—not TV hosts whose fundamental qualification is their loyalty to Trump,” wrote former Senator Patty Murray of Washington in a submit on X.
Dr. Oz has zero {qualifications}, pushes alarming pseudoscience, & holds excessive anti-abortion views.
CMS is a essential company & we’d like severe leaders to guard Individuals’ well being care and convey down prices—not TV hosts whose fundamental qualification is their loyalty to Trump. https://t.co/QgbaIHV9AJ
— Senator Patty Murray (@PattyMurray) November 20, 2024
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