President-elect Donald Trump continues with the cascade of appointments. Thus, it was announced this Tuesday that Dr. Mehmet Oz, known as Dr. Oz on his television programs, will be the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the health social assistance programs aimed at elderly and low-income people.
“The United States is facing a health care crisis and there may be no doctor more qualified and capable than Dr. Oz to make America healthy again,” the president-elect said in a statement about the controversial surgeon. , who throughout his career has advocated for various pseudosciences.
Among others, he is a defender of alternative medicine, faith healing and various paranormal beliefs, a situation that has brought him criticism from numerous medical publications.
According to Trump, Oz is “an eminent physician, cardiac surgeon, inventor and world-class communicator, who has been at the forefront of healthy living for decades.”
Oz will work closely with Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the former presidential candidate known for his vaccine conspiracy theories, who was nominated last week as the future health secretary.
In the statement, Trump, who won the election on November 5 and will take office as president on January 20, stated that the health care system is “broken,” “harming ordinary Americans and crushing the budget” of the country.
Oz will thus dedicate himself, he stated, to reducing “waste” and “fraud”, within “the most expensive government agency” in the United States, which represents “a third of the country’s health care spending” and “a quarter ” from the national budget, he assured.
The son of Turkish immigrants, Oz grew up in Wilmington, Delaware, and graduated from Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania.
He began his television career on the Discovery Channel series ‘Second opinion with Dr. Oz’ and was a regular guest on ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’,
In 2009 he created ‘The Dr. Oz Show’, a daily television program on medical and health topics that lasted 13 seasons.
Oz recently attempted to make his jump into politics and ran for the 2022 US Senate election in Pennsylvania.
He lost the race to John Fetterman, even though Trump had publicly shown his support for him.
Linda McMahon, former wrestling executive, Secretary of Education
Trump also announced this Tuesday the appointment of Linda McMahon, a former executive of the wrestling company World Wrestling Entertainment and who was already part of his first Government, as Secretary of Education.
Through a statement, the Republican confirmed that McMahon, 76, will be in charge of leading the department, despite only having experience in education at the local level, as a member of the Connecticut State Board of Education.
As Secretary of Education, the future president noted in a statement, “she will fight tirelessly to expand school choice to every state in the country and empower parents to make the best educational decisions for their families.”
“Linda will use her decades of leadership experience and deep knowledge of both education and business to empower the next generation of American students and workers, and make the United States number one in education in the world,” he added.
McMahon was in charge of the Small Business Administration during Trump’s first term. She was appointed in 2017 and resigned in 2019 to become president of America First Action, a pro-Trump super PAC.
Together with her husband, Vince McMahon, the future Secretary of Education founded the WWE, an American media and entertainment company mainly integrated into the area of professional wrestling.
Until 2009, the former executive oversaw its transformation from a small wrestling entertainment company to a publicly traded media empire.
McMahon ran twice unsuccessfully for the United States Senate from Connecticut, in 2010 and 2012.
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