The Senate confirmed Mehmet OZ as an administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and made it head of Medicaid at a time at a time in which its financing exists to be severely shortened.
The Senate voted 53-45 to party lines to confirm OZ.
The heart-surger doctor was asked intensively by Democrats in the Senate Finance Committee. Oz often deviated and delivered general allities.
The former candidate of the GOP Senate of Pennsylvania Gop, in particular, did not say whether he supported potential GOP cuts in Medicaid.
CMS offers 68 million people for medicar and 79 million people for Medicaid. Much of what OZ said, tuned the agenda “Make America Healthy” in the direction of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
“Let us prevent waste and misuse in the modernization of our tools to reduce fraud.
As head of the CMS, OZ is also responsible for the implementation of the law on affordable care, the legislation that he had previously born had been in the congress at that time.
In his earlier career as television minds, OZ received criticism from supporting false or misleading medical claims. In 2018, he agreed to an agreement of 5.25 million US dollars for a lawsuit in which he was accused
His once campaign opponent, Senator John Fetterman (D-Pa.), Considered the confirmation of OZ as a CMS administrator, although he had retained an openness to coordinate yes.
“When it comes to protecting and preserving Medicare and Medicaid, I vote for the guy,” said Fetterman on social media.
At least one Republican had expressed reservations to confirm OZ. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) Went to social media after Oz ‘hearing and hoped that the candidate had changed his attitude on topics such as hormone treatments for transgender children and abortion access.
In his show of the same name, OZ once organized two transgender children in a “groundbreaking” interview, which was called “overwhelming respect and accuracy”. As a candidate of the Senate in 2022, OZ said that he was “pro-life”, but did not support any criminal punishments for doctors or women in relation to abortion. “
Oz had apparently reassured Hawley from his current views, as the Missouri Senator said this week that OZ told him that he had rejected his previous support for transoperations and drugs for minor children and declined his previous criticisms of “state pro-life laws”.
This story was updated at 5:19 p.m.
