The Senate Thursday confirmed President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services 53-45, on a party-line vote.
The confirmation of Mehmet Oz, known best for his time as a TV personality and host of the daytime talk show “The Dr. Oz Show,” will put him in charge of the federal agency responsible for overseeing health insurance coverage for 160 million people through Medicaid, Medicare, the Children’s Health Insurance Program and more.
Oz, who unsuccessfully sought a U.S. Senate seat against Democrat John Fetterman in Pennsylvania in 2022, was also a practicing heart surgeon earlier in his career — job experience which Republicans praised as a qualification for the position.
