Washington – Dr. Mohamed Oz, President Donald Trump’s selection to lead medical care services and medical services centers, will witness before the Senate Finance Committee on Friday morning.
64 -year -old He was a respectable heart surgeon Which turned into a famous TV stadium. He now has his eyes on overseeing health insurance of about 150 million Americans registered in Medicare, Medicaid, or reasonable care law.
Republicans, who gathered around Trump’s health agents, are likely to ask about his plans for medical and medical care, including the Trump administration’s focus on Eliminate fraud From trillion dollars.
At the same time, Democrats will ask about OZ tax files, which they say shows that he used the tax law vulnerability to pay thousands of dollars on medical care, a program that will supervise it. Oz also on any discounts he will make to cover health insurance as well as comments on his television program that supports the privatized Medicare.
A spokesman for the US government ethics office said to an “intensive review” of Oz’s money. He added that the office pointed out that “any possible conflicts have been resolved and that it is compatible with the law.”
Oz created everything from nutritional supplements to special health insurance plans in his former TV series, “The Dr. Oz Show”, which lasted for 13 seasons and helped him collect a fortune.
Oz’s net value ranges between $ 98 million and $ 332 million, according to To analyze detectionWhich lists the values ​​of assets in the domains, but it does not give precise numbers in dollars. He shows his latest disclosure that he also holds millions of dollars in shares in health insurance companies, fertility, pharmaceutical preparations and vitamins. He promised to strip dozens of companies that would form conflicts for him as a CMS official.
In the job, he can have great power on most of the United States health companies because he can make decisions on the coverage of Medicare and Medicaid.
The Oz session comes at a time when the Trump administration seeks to finish the leadership positions of the country’s senior health agencies. On Thursday, the Senate committees voted to enhance the nominations of Marti Makary, which are preparing to lead the Food and Drug Administration, and Jay Bhatera, which was subjected to the leadership of the National Institutes of Health, to fully vote in the Senate. Dave Wildon’s nomination for diseases and prevention control centers It was suddenly pulled Thursday.
All of these men bowed Robert F. Kennedy Junior An invitation to “make America healthy again”, which is a controversial effort to redesign food supply in the country, reject the states of vaccines and question some of the long -term scientific research.
“Americans need better research on healthy lifestyle options from non -biased scientists,” Oz wrote in the late last year to erase Kennedy to be the country’s Minister of Health.
This is not the first time that Oz made a testimony in front of the Senators. In 2014, many Senate members scolded him during a hearing on doubtful weight loss products that rose on his television program.
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Health writer Tom Murphy contributed to this report from Indianapolis.
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