BREAKING: Trump nominates Dr. Mehmet Oz to head Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

President-elect Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he has nominated Dr. Mehmet Oz to serve as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in his forthcoming administration.

Trump wrote in a press release, "I am very pleased to nominate Dr. Mehmet Oz to serve as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator. America is facing a Healthcare Crisis, and there may be no Physician more qualified and capable than Dr. Oz to Make America Healthy Again. He is an eminent Physician, Heart Surgeon, Inventor, and World-Class Communicator, who has been at the forefront of healthy living for decades. Dr. Oz will work closely with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to take on the illness industrial complex, and all the horrible chronic diseases left in its wake."

"Our broken Healthcare System harms everyday Americans, and crushes our Country’s budget. Dr. Oz will be a leader in incentivizing Disease Prevention, so we get the best results in the World for every dollar we spend on Healthcare in our Great Country. He will also cut waste and fraud within our Country’s most expensive Government Agency, which is a third of our Nation’s Healthcare spend, and a quarter of our entire National Budget," Trump added.

Dr. Oz, a Harvard College, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and Wharton Business School graduate, served as "a Professor of Surgery at Columbia University, while receiving numerous patents on his medical inventions, authoring more than 400 original publications, and publishing numerous New York Times Best Selling books," and won nine Daytime Emmy Awards for his show The Dr. Oz Show, "where he taught millions of Americans how to make healthier lifestyle choices, and gave a strong voice to the key pillars of the MAHA Movement," the press release added. In 2022, Oz ran against Democrat John Fetterman for Pennsylvania's US Senate seat.

"I have known Dr. Oz for many years, and I am confident he will fight to ensure everyone in America receives the best possible Healthcare, so our Country can be Great and Healthy Again!"