The former heart surgeon and the TV stadium, Dr. Mohamed Oz, were confirmed on Thursday to lead medical care centers Medical aid Services (CMS).
Oz has become the agency’s director of the 53-45 votes.
The 64 -year -old will manage the health insurance programs for almost half the country, with the supervision of Medicare, Medicaid and Accore Care Act. It takes the new role as Congress discusses discounts in the Medicaid program, which provides coverage for millions of poor Americans and handicapped.
Uz has not yet said whether to oppose such discounts to the government’s program, and instead it provides a vision to enhance healthy lifestyles, integrate artificial intelligence and health into the system, and rethink the connection of rural health care.
During a hearing last month, Senators told members that he prefers to work requirements for medicaid beneficiaries, but these papers should not be used to confirm again that they are working or to prevent people from staying registered.
Oz, who has worked for years as a respectable heart surgeon in Columbia UniversityAlso note that doctors hate medicaid because of his relatively low paid and others do not want these patients to take.
He said that when Medicaid’s eligibility was expanded without improving the resources of doctors, which made care options thinner for the primary patients of the program, which include children, pregnant people and persons with disabilities.
“We have to make some important decisions to improve the quality of care,” he said.
Oz has a close relationship with his new boss, Robert P. Kennedy Junior. The Minister of Health and his internal circle regularly hosted his home in Florida. He bowed in the Kennedy campaign to “make America healthy again” (MAA), an attempt to redesign food supplies in the country, reject vaccine delegations and suspect some of the long -term scientific research.
The former TV program host often talks about the importance of a healthy diet, and is closely in line with Kennedy’s opinions.
While Oz faced some criticism to enhance unproven vitamin supplements and comprehensive treatments – foodstuffs in the “MAA” movement – the Americans regularly encouraged vaccination.
Oz will take control of CMS days away from the depth of the agency’s deep discounts that Kennedy requested in other public health agencies. Thousands of employees in the Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and National Institutes of health Outside work after the demobilization of the collective workers that started on Tuesday.
CMS is expected to lose about 300 employees, including those who have worked on minority health and reduce the cost of delivery of health care.
On Thursday, a federal judge will temporarily prevent the Donald Trump administration from reducing billions of dollars in federal dollars that support Covid-19 initiatives and public health projects throughout the country.
The American boycott judge, Mary McLeroy, appointed by the American President in 2019, said, but Barack Obama nominated her for the first time, in Rod Island, that she plans to give the court order requested by 23 states and the province of Colombia.
“They are a case, a strong issue, because they will succeed in the objective foundations, so I will give the matter of temporary restriction.”
The state’s suit, which was filed on Tuesday, sought to stop the $ 11 billion cuts. The money was allocated by Congress during the epidemic and was mostly used for initiatives related to Covid, as well as for mental health and use of materials. The lawsuit said that the loss of money would destroy the United States infrastructure for public health, which exposes states “a greater risk to treat future epidemics, spread preventive diseases, and reduce biomedically public health services.”
The US Department of Health and Humanitarian Services defended the decision, saying that the money was lost since the end of the epidemic.
