Senate committee to vote on Dr. Mehmet Oz's nomination to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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Washington — The Senate Finance Committee is set Tuesday to vote on whether to advance the nomination of Dr. Mehmet Oz, the former heart surgeon and television host, to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under President Trump.
Oz appeared before the committee, made up of 14 Republicans and 13 Democrats, earlier this month. If confirmed, the 64-year-old would oversee the nearly $1.5 trillion the federal government spends on Medicare and Medicaid — health insurance programs that make up a large amount of the budget and have often been wielded as political cudgels.
Oz has widespread name recognition as the host of "The Dr. Oz Show," and previously worked as a professor of cardiac surgery at Columbia University. After the show stopped taping in 2022, Oz ran for the open Senate seat in Pennsylvania, where he was defeated by now-Sen. John Fetterman.
