In a press release from the Trump-Vance Transition team, Trump praised Oz as being an “eminent Physician, Heart Surgeon, Inventor, and World-Class Communicator,” and added that Oz would be working closely with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who Trump had selected to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
“I am very pleased to nominate Dr. Mehmet Oz to serve as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator,” Trump said. “America is facing a Healthcare Crisis, and there may be no Physician more qualified and capable than Dr. Oz to Make America Healthy Again. He is an eminent Physician, Heart Surgeon, Inventor, and World-Class Communicator, who has been at the forefront of healthy living for decades.”
Oz and Kennedy would work closely with each other to “take on the illness industrial complex, and all the horrible chronic diseases left in its wake,” Trump added in his statement.