Senate Confirms Mehmet Oz to Head Medicare and Medicaid

Dr. Mehmet Oz has been confirmed as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.The Senate approved the former attending physician at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and professor of surgery at Columbia University in a 53–45 party-line vote. Oz, best known as the celebrity host of a long-running syndicated television program featuring health-related topics, was nominated by President Donald Trump to lead the agency, which administers health coverage payments for more than 160 million people and spends one in five taxpayer dollars through Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the Health Insurance Marketplace.Read the Original Report here.—Sign up for our newsletter to get the latest podcast episodes from The Epoch Times.