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Source for Photo: FILE – Mehmet Oz, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, best-known as the host of daytime TV’s “The Dr. Oz Show,” speaks during a town hall campaign event at Arcaro and Genell in Old Forge, Pa., in this file photo from Jan. 19, 2022. Oz will be honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in a ceremony Friday, Feb. 11, just as he’s being attacked 2,000 miles away in a rival’s TV ad saying he’s to “Hollywood.” (Christopher Dolan/The Times-Tribune via AP)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Washington) On Tuesday, the head of the President of the United States’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Dr. Mehmet Oz, was announced by newly elected President Donald Trump. Oz, both a heart surgeon as well as a former daytime television show host, will perform his new position which will supervise Medicare, the marketplace for federal health insurance, as well as the Children’s Health Insurance Program, if Oz is approved by the Senate. Oz will also work with Robert Kennedy Jr., who was chosen as Trump’s Health and Human Services Secretary. According to a statement by Trump, he does not see anyone else besides Dr. Oz that is more qualified to “make America healthy again.” Oz is no stranger to the President, as Trump gave an endorsement to Oz when he ran for Senate back in 2022. There is some controversy, however, because Oz tried to promote supplements that were not proven to work and that caught the attention of Congress. Back in June of 2014, Oz was also blamed at a Senate committee hearing for recommending a green coffee bean extract as well as deceiving consumers about the product.