The Senate confirms Dr. Oz to lead the Medicare and Medicaid agency
Washington (AP) – Former cardiac surgeon and television pitcher Dr. Mehmet Oz was confirmed on Thursday to direct the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid services.
OZ became the agency administrator in a vote of the 53-45 party.
The 64 -year -old will administer health insurance programs for approximately half of the country, with supervision of the Coverage of Medicare, Medicaid or the Health Care Law at a low price. He enters the new role since Congress is debating the cuts to the Medicaid program, which provides coverage to millions of poor and disabled Americans.
Oz has not yet said if such cuts would be opposed to the Government -financed program, but offers a vision of promoting healthier lifestyles, integrating artificial intelligence and telesalud into the system and rethinking the provision of rural medical care.
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During an audience last month, he told the senators that he favored the work requirements for Medicaid beneficiaries, but the paperwork should not be used to reaffirm that they are working or to prevent people from being registered.
Oz, who worked for years, a respected cardiac surgeon at Columbia University, also pointed out that doctors do not like Medicaid for their relatively low payments and some do not want to take those patients.
He said that when Medicaid’s eligibility expanded without improving resources for doctors, that made care options even thinner for the central patients of the program, which include children, pregnant women and people with disabilities.
“We have to make some important decisions to improve the quality of care,” he said.
Oz has formed a close relationship with his new boss, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has received the Secretary of Health and his intimate circle regularly at his home in Florida. He has inclined to Kennedy’s campaign to “make the United States again healthy”, an effort to redesign the food supply of the Nation, reject vaccine mandates and doubt a scientific investigation established for a long time.
The former television presenter speaks often about the importance of a healthy diet, closely aligning with Kennedy’s opinions.
While he has faced some criticisms of promoting vitamin supplements not proven and holistic treatments, basic foods of the “Maha Movement”, Americans are regularly encouraged to vaccinate.
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OZ will take care of CMS days after the agency is saved from the type of deep cuts that Kennedy ordered other public health agencies. Thousands of employees of the Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as the National Health Institutes are without work after mass layoffs that began on Tuesday.
CMS is expected to lose about 300 employees, including those who worked on minority health and reduce the cost of medical care.