Celebrity crank to be put in charge of Medicare and Medicaid
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Hamburgers got too expensive, so we have to treat cancer with raw milk injections:
President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will nominate Mehmet Oz to serve as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, elevating a TV-famous doctor who ran unsuccessfully for Senate in Pennsylvania in 2022.
“He is an eminent Physician, Heart Surgeon, Inventor, and World-Class Communicator, who has been at the forefront of healthy living for decades,” Trump said in a statement, adding that Oz would work with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — Trump’s pick for health and human services secretary — to “take on the illness industrial complex.”
Oz’s critics say he provided a platform for potentially dangerous medical advice while hosting “The Dr. Oz Show.” Trump’s nomination of Kennedy, a prominent vaccine skeptic, also has sparked concern from health experts.
Trump has suggested he wants to cut “waste” in entitlement programs. He reiterated that in his Tuesday announcement, saying Oz will “cut waste and fraud within our Country’s most expensive Government Agency.” Trump’s team has said that he wants to preserve popular programs such as Medicare despite those calls for cutbacks. But Trump’s economic advisers and congressional Republicans have begun discussing potential changes to Medicaid to offset the costs of extending tax cuts, The Washington Post reported this week.
In charge until Trump, Johnson and Thune kill them at least. A reminder of who we’re dealing with here:
Dubious/baseless medical treatments pushed by Dr. Oz…
1) Hydroxy for COVID-19
2) Rasberry ketones for fat loss
3) Green coffee extract for weight loss
4) Umckaloabo root extract for colds
5) Lavender soap for leg cramps
6) A strawberry-baking soda mixture for teeth whitening— Grace Panetta (@grace_panetta) November 19, 2024
Meanwhile, here’s what’s happening with the other half of Trump’s public health idiot trust:
THE MAN DONALD TRUMP HAS ENTRUSTED to run America’s health agencies previously expressed his belief that the U.S. government planned the COVID pandemic that killed more than 1.2 million of its citizens.
In an August 2020 speech, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he was open to the possibility that the pandemic was, in fact, a “plandemic”—an infectious disease outbreak orchestrated by government officials to effectively subdue the populace.
“Many people argue that this pandemic was a ‘plandemic,’ that it was planned from the outset, it’s part of a sinister scheme. I can’t tell you the answer to that. I don’t have enough evidence. A lot of it feels very planned to me,” Kennedy said at a press conference to mark a newly formed European chapter of his group, Children’s Health Defense. “I don’t know. I will tell you this: If you create these mechanisms for control, they become weapons of obedience for authoritarian regimes no matter how beneficial or innocent the people who created them.”
We’re two months from inauguration and already it feels like this has been going on forever.