Trump nominates celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz to run US health coverage agency
US president elect Donald Trump has nominated Mehmet Oz, a cardiothoracic surgeon and television celebrity doctor to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), a large federal agency that provides health coverage to about 160 million Americans. CMS is part of the Department of Health and Human Services. Trump recently nominated Robert F Kennedy Jr as head of the DHHS.1 Both nominations require Senate confirmation, but Trump may try to bypass that by making a “recess appointment” when the Senate is not in session. Oz, 64, is the son of Turkish immigrants to the US and holds dual citizenship. He received his medical …
