Dr. Mehmet Oz, is President Trump’s pick to lead Medicare and Medicaid.
And so, naturally, he faced tough questions during his Senate confirmation hearing.
Senators pressed him on potential Medicaid funding cuts, but Dr. Oz focused on emphasizing efficiency and fraud prevention instead.
Oz’s policy positions and financial dealings were under intense scrutiny as he shoots for this critical healthcare role.
If President Trump wants him in, then the Establishment will try to smear him. It’s their playbook.
Dr. Oz Criticizes Some Medicare Advantage Business Practices – WSJ https://t.co/6nLY33hVj7
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The Left used to love this guy.
But now that Trump has appointed him, he’s probably the worst doctor in history, right?
Their tactics are getting old.
Fox News reports:
Dr. Mehmet Oz was slammed by his detractors during a Senate confirmation hearing Friday on Capitol Hill for promoting unproven alternative health treatments, and one Democrat called it the “most ludicrous wellness grifting” he’d ever seen.
Oz laid out his plans for the agency, including potential reforms he is considering, during a confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Committee on Finance. The committee will soon vote on whether to advance Oz’s nomination to become the next director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services to the full Senate.
While Oz’s medical expertise was not widely challenged Friday, his motivations were. Dubbed “America’s Doctor” by Oprah Winfrey, Oz used his TV platform at times to promote alternative health remedies, endorsing questionable weight loss solutions like green coffee extract and raspberry ketones.
Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., sought to get Oz to admit that his promotion of certain supplements for weight loss, such as green coffee extract, were fraudulent. While Oz admitted green coffee extract is not a miracle weight loss drug, he argued that he never promoted it as such.
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Holden Culotta posted on X:
This is the most important video on 𝕏 today.
Dr. Oz just EXPOSED America’s health crisis in his CMS confirmation hearing.
“Here’s some painful truths … ”
Chronic disease costs are 75% of $1.7 trillion in annual CMS spending.
Medical error is the third-leading cause of death.
Nutrition isn’t even taught in medical school.
“All great societies protect their most vulnerable.”
ADVERTISEMENT“I was a student athlete at Harvard … that was the original Make America Healthy Again concept, that you would work hard, play hard, eat well, and watch your body thrive.”
“I was surprised when I matriculated at the University of Pennsylvania in medical school that there was no nutrition class.”
“I ran for School President, I won, and I created that class.”
“I believe a physician has a responsibility to tell patients what they need to know, even if the message is uncomfortable.”
ADVERTISEMENT“Here’s some painful truths that should concern everyone in this room.”
“Health care expenditures are growing 2-3% faster than our economy. Not sustainable.”
“The Medicare trust fund will be insolvent within a decade.”
“Medicaid is the number one expense item in most states, consuming 30% of those state budgets, and that’s crowding out essential services like schools and public safety.”
“Our healthcare cost per person in this country is twice that of other developed nations. So it’s not just about the money.”
“Why is it costing us do much? Because of chronic disease.”
“Those chronic diseases … are linked to poor lifestyle choices, and they drive three-quarters of the $1.7 trillion that CMS spends a year.”
“43% of Americans are obese. That’s the major lifestyle driver of those of those lifestyle chronic morbidities. That’s quadrupled since I was in college.”
ADVERTISEMENT“Three-quarters of our young people cannot even qualify for military service.”
“Our maternal mortality rate … puts us in dead last place, behind 50 other countries.”
“Medical errors, number three cause of death in America.”
“Our life expectancy is now five years shorter than comparable countries.”
“This public health crisis threatens our national security. Why? Because it adds to the national debt that is defeating us from within, crowding out other essential services.”
“We are witnessing fellow Americans suffering needlessly, which I believe is a moral failing.”
“The most expensive care we give is bad care. You pay to do the wrong thing, you pay to fix what was done wrong, then you pay to deal with all the complications.”
“It’s immoral, it’s wrong, and it’s expensive.”
“We have a generational opportunity to fix our health care system.”
“Artificial intelligence … can liberate doctors and nurses from all the paperwork, which by the way, as much time as they spend on paperwork is taking care of patients.”
“They should focus on patients, it’s a better use of their time.”
“Let’s be aggressive in modernizing our tools to reduce fraud, waste, and abuse.”
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This is the most important video on 𝕏 today.
Dr. Oz just EXPOSED America’s health crisis in his CMS confirmation hearing.
“Here's some painful truths … ”
Chronic disease costs are 75% of $1.7 trillion in annual CMS spending.
Medical error is the third-leading cause of… pic.twitter.com/IKNPPqi0zy
— Holden Culotta (@Holden_Culotta) March 14, 2025
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