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The Senate has confirmed Mehmet Oz arsenic head for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), making him the caput of Medicaid astatine a clip wherever its backing is astatine hazard of being severely cut.
The Senate voted 53-45 on enactment lines to corroborate Oz.
The heart-surgeon-turned-celebrity-physician faced aggravated questioning by Democrats successful the Senate Finance Committee. Oz often dodged providing circumstantial answers, providing generalities.
The erstwhile Pennsylvania GOP Senate campaigner notably did not accidental whether helium supported imaginable GOP cuts to Medicaid.
CMS provides sum for 68 cardinal radical connected Medicare and 79 cardinal radical connected Medicaid. Much of what Oz said aligned with the "Make America Healthy Again" docket led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
“Let’s beryllium assertive successful modernizing our tools to trim fraud, discarded and abuse. This volition halt unscrupulous radical from stealing from susceptible Americans and widen the beingness of the Medicare spot fund," Oz said successful his Senate hearing.
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