The doctor and television presenter Mehmet Oz was confirmed by the US Senate to head Agency that controls healthcare millions of Americans.
Oz, a former heart surgeon at Columbia University, who became famous for his “Current -show”Last year, he was chosen by US President Donald Trump to head the Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) programs.
On Thursday, the Senate, controlled by the Republicans, confirmed him to the position 53-45 Party line of voice.
In 2009, she launched her own television program, “Show of Dr. Oz”, Where he gave advice on health and well -being to the audience, as well as stories about real crimes and a celebrity interview.
Medical experts were analyzed by the 64 -year -old methods of Dr. Oz, who criticize their advancement of unproven products to reduce weight and other holistic procedures.
Despite the promotion of the use of masks in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemia, then medical experts were criticized for the use of the use of the use of the use of the use of the use of the use of the use of the use of Medicines for malaria as a medicine for the virus.
He also contributed to positions against abortion and stated that he would “potentially” “potentially” the death penalty for fentanyl merchants.
As the director of Medical and Medicaid programs, Oz must support an agency that controls medical insurance from about half the United States And this also includes the law on affordable medical care, better known as Obamacare.
Its purpose occurs at a time when Congress discusses the contractions in the Medicaid program, which covers the medical expenses of people with low income.
Oz did not explain whether to confront these abbreviations in the funded state program. Last month, he told the senators at the audience that will support The requirement for the beneficiaries of Medicaid, But this documentation should not be used so that people do not register in the program.
He also indicated that some US doctors reluctantly accept patients who use Medicaid from their relatively low payments, and argue that expanding the program without improving resources for professionals reduced their quality of vulnerable patients.
“We must make some important decisions To improve the quality of healthcare, ”Lake said.
Oz will capture the direction of Medicare and Medicaid a few days after the agency was spared from the deep reductions that the US Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ordered the public healthcare organization.
These measures that led to Thousands of employees lose their jobs In the Office for Products and Medicines, centers of control and prevention of diseases and national healthcare institutions.
It is expected that the agency will lose about 300 employees, including those who dealt with the medical care of minorities, and reduce the cost of assisting.