Trump Picks Medicare Privatization Proponent Dr. Oz to Oversee Medicare Agency

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : " The advocacy group Social Security Works noted that plans to "completely privatize Medicare" are also in Project 2025, the far-right policy agenda that Trump repeatedly tried to distance himself from while campaigning. "Hands off our earned benefits!" said the group.
42% : " "By nominating RFK Jr. and Mehmet Oz," he added, "Trump is giving his middle finger to science.
23% : " If confirmed to be the next U.S. secretary of health and human services, anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could be working "closely" with another official who's infamous for his questionable health guidance: Dr. Mehmet Oz, who President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday nominated to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
18% : Trump said in a statement that if confirmed, Oz would "cut waste and fraud within our Country's most expensive Government Agency" -- a plan that advocates for Medicare said would be carried out by privatizing the healthcare program that serves more than 66 million senior citizens.

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