The answer to the question about whether it’s appropriate to call one of President-elect Trump’s latest cabinet nominees by his made-for-TV handle “Dr. Oz” is all too obvious: Yes.

In August, Dr. Mehmet Oz’s official YouTube account posted a video titled “Get $0/Month Medicare Coverage: What You Need to Know,” in which Oz lays a sales pitch on his viewers. “Which of these items can you get for zero dollars?

If confirmed to run the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, television personality Dr. Mehmet Oz, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee, would oversee two large federal health insurance programs that cover about 2 in 5 Americans and greatly influence the nation's health care system.

President-elect Donald Trump has picked Dr. Mehmet Oz to serve as the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a key federal agency that oversees health insurance coverage for more than 150 million Americans.

The celebrity physician would run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a powerful agency in charge of programs that cover more than 150 million Americans.

In November 2024, president-elect Trump selected TV personality Dr. Mehmet Oz, who has an estimated net worth of $200 million, to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Servic

Nominated by Trump to oversee Medicare and Medicaid, the celebrity doctor continues to peddle dubious health products

Trump said Tuesday he would nominate Oz as administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The agency’s scope is huge: CMS oversees coverage for more than 160 million Americans, nearly half the population.