Idiot says what now?
#DrOz Pushed for #AI #HealthCare in First #Medicare Agency Town Hall
Dr. Oz, who now controls the Centers for Medicare & #Medicaid Services & its $1.5 trillion budget, promoted the idea that AI avatars could replace frontline health care workers.
#health #medicine #PublicHealth #Trump #idiocracy #kakistocracy
https://www.wired.com/story/dr-oz-ai-health-care-medicare-cms-town-hall/
#DrOz as the medicare/medicaid czar is too on-the-nose for even a TRANSMETROPOLITAN throwaway gag
Un-fucking-believable
Senate confirmed #MehmetOz to oversee #HealthInsurance for millions of Americans
TV’s “#DrOz” & known quack has been confirmed to lead the Centers for #Medicare & #Medicaid Services, which has a massive $1 trillion+ budget & oversees health insurance for millions of Americans.
Dr. #Oz ‘Disavows’ Support for #Transgender Care, Allaying a Senator’s Concerns
Senator Josh #Hawley, a #Republican , pressed Dr. Oz on transgender care and #abortion, and now says he will vote for the physician’s confirmation to become head of #Medicare and #Medicaid.
#droz
Dr. Oz and the Plot Against Medicare
#MedicareAdvantage plans are killing seniors and bankrupting hospitals. Now the #Trump administration is preparing to make them mandatory, ending #Medicare as we know it.
from #DropSiteNews
[co-published with Truthdig]
Alexander Zaitchik
Mar 24, 2025
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/dr-oz-trump-plot-medicare-advantage-plans?r=fzerp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
#HandsOffMedicare
#USA #US #USPolitics
#news #press #MehmetOz
#DrOz
Oz is chummy with senators at hearing, says that "There's a new sheriff in town" re: fraud in #Medicare Advantage
It remains to be seen whether #DrOz will be tougher on Medicare Advantage (where there's rampant documented overspending) or on #Medicaid.
Oz also nods to using #AI to reduce prior auths and incentivize doctors to "optimize care" and focus on patients
via @STAT
https://www.statnews.com/2025/03/14/dr-oz-confirmation-hearing-medicare-advantage-crackdown-medicaid-cms/
CNBC: #Trump #CMS nominee #DrOz won't commit to opposing #Medicaid cuts
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/14/trump-dr-oz-cms-medicaid-cuts-senate.html
I'm sure Oz is selling a supplement that's just as good as Medicaid...
Dr. Oz Won’t Commit To Protecting Medicaid
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/dr-oz-protecting-medicaid-senate-hearing-1235296719/
#DrOz to Offload Millions in #Healthcare #Stocks if Confirmed as #Medicare Boss
https://www.thewrap.com/dr-oz-offload-millions-healthcare-stocks-medicare-medicaid/
Rachel #Maddow has been posting these "Public Servant Announcements" reviewing #PizzaTheHut's wildly unqualified & questionable sycophantic cabinet nominees, starting with #DrOz for head of #Medicare & #Medicaid Services:
https://mastodon.social/@MugsysRapSheet/113742051086532707
#RachelMaddow has been releasing these "Public Servant Announcements", providing critical info on #TheOrangeMenace's wildly unqualified, incompetent, and even potentially dangerous picks to fill his #cabinet & lead crucial gov't agencies.
Her latest was T****'s pick to run #Medicare: #DrOz (and I thought #Tulsi was bad.)
I encourage you to watch the prior three clips as well for #Gabbard, #KristiNoem & #MattWhitaker.) #JFC #DisasterPresidency #CabinetOfIncompetents
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/rachel-maddow-on-dr-mehmet-oz-five-things-about-trump-s-pick-to-lead-medicare-medicaid-services-227885125965
#Corruption Watch, #DrOz edition: https://www.commondreams.org/news/dr-oz
What am I thankful for?
I'm thankful that H5N1 hasn't yet mutated to become easily transmissible P2P.
Oh, wait. Maybe it already has and we just don't know it yet because we're hardly doing any monitoring in the U.S.
I'm not generally a superstitious person. But if another pandemic is imminent, 2025 would be the year for a perfect storm, with anti-vaxxer, conspiracy theorist RFK Jr. heading HHS; Great Barrington co-author and anti-public health hawk Jay Bhattacharya heading NIH; and anti-science TV quack Doc Oz heading medicare. And let's not forget, former Florida Representative Dave Weldon as admin for the CDC, Marty Makary as commissioner of FDA, and Fox News TV quack Janette Nesheiwat as surgeon general. All 3 are anti-science conspiracy nuts. Each has spread vaccine misinformation. All oppose gender-affirming care for transgender individuals.
If any of y'all are worried about H5N1, don't be. It's just like the flu.
#Biden wants to curb abuses by privatized "#Medicare Advantage" plans. Count on Trump and #DrOz to reverse that right away. https://www.commondreams.org/news/dr-oz-medicare-advantage
"In addition to eroding our democracy and constitutional norms, the incoming Trump Administration presents one of the greatest modern threats to the safety, health, and well-being of American families.
A plurality of American voters decided they were fine with possibly dying just to temporarily feel great again."
~ Wajahat Ali
#health #PublicPolicy #RFKJr #DrOz #JosephLapado #Trump
/5
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/maga-makes-death-great-again
Benjamin Mazer calls what Trump's proposing to do to public medicine with his nominations the "revenge of the COVID contrarians." "They’re angry at the public-health establishment. Now they’re in control of it," he says. And:
What unites them all—and what legitimizes them in the eyes of this next administration—is a lasting rage over COVID."
#health #PublicPolicy #RFKJr #DrOz #JosephLapado #Trump
/4
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/11/covid-revenge-administration/680790/
And now along come Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mehmet Oz, Joseph Lapado as Trump's public-health wrecking balls, and what's going to happen to the controls we count on to try to keep us healthy, to keep us from encountering dangerous food peddled by people caring about profit and not our health?
The future looks dark, indeed, for anyone with eyes to see.
