At a hearing on Friday, Senators pressured Dr. Mehmet Oz, who was nominated by a TV celebrity for medical and medical heads, on Republican -led suggestions that would significantly affect health care coverage for almost all half Americans.
During his confirmation before the Senate Finance Committee, Dr. Oz banned senators in a friendly environment, making fun of basketball and loyalty to college teams. He survived the harsh questions from both sides of the mass, and he showed his wind blows when he removed the most important concerns of Democrats about potential changes in health coverage not only 65 years and older but also for poor children.
Many senators seem to be engaged in a severe debate on the Republican budget agreement to prevent the government’s closure, and they are out of and out of the hearing of Dr. Oz. But they are ready to travel through the Senate for confirmation as the next administrator of medical and medical services centers, an agency that costs $ 1.5 trillion.
Massachusetts’ Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren made a major deal of financial controversy before the hearing. But in the session, he did not put pressure on these issues. Instead, he focused on his thoughts about whether the private medical projects were charging more than the government, the area where he and Dr. Oz agreed on the need to deal with potential fraud and waste.
Throughout the hearing, he showed an easy knowledge of the affairs of several relevant agency, though he repeatedly attracted to stocking the answers that he would need to study the subject more.
Several lawmakers, primarily Democrats, tried to force Dr. Oz to express their views about the Trump administration’s goals to reduce health care costs and agency budget, but they repeatedly surpassed these minefields.
“It is our patriotic duty to stay healthy,” he told the senators. “Lifestyle choices cost a lot of money to take care of the sick people.”
This abstinence is in accordance with the movement to the United States once again, with the help of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the new secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, and if it is confirmed, soon the sooner of Dr. Oz’s boss, soon,
Medicare advantage and privatization
The introductory remarks of Oregon’s Democrat, Senator Ron Weden, made some difficult questions. He accused Dr. Oz of about $ 500,000 social security and medical tax using a limited partnership tax exemption in recent years, in which Democrats concluded after reviewing Dr. Oz’s tax declarations. But there were no followers questions.
Mr Weden also discovered that he is going to grill Dr. Oz, who is from TZ Insurance Solutions, a lucrative company that sells medical advanced projects to older Americans. Dr. Oz has been an infinite promoter of private projects, which lawmakers and regulators have criticized for refusing and refusing to take care of patients on their show and YouTube channel.
According to a recent investigation by the New York Times, 64 -year -old Doctor Oz, 64, is also a registered broker for TZ insurance in states across the country. Once again, Mr Weden flagged the issue and did not follow it.
Despite the Democrats’ concerns that Dr. Oz would overtake some rules to overcome the projects, he pledged strict surveillance. He acknowledged that some of the pimples selling these projects were “policies”, which turned people from one project to another, regardless of the change in coverage.
Dr. Oz said, “Part of it is just acknowledging that there is a new sheriff in the city.” “We really have to go behind the places and areas where we are not well managing the money of the American people.”
Many times in the hearing, Dr. Oz focused on bilateral concerns whether medical advantage plans have been paid more. In response to questions from a fellow physician, Louisiana’s Republican Senator Bill Casadi, Dr. Oz mentioned a study stating that the federal government spends more on a private alternative to medical than the government -run program. “This is the opposite,” he said.
“We should check whether some money should be given to the American people,” said Dr. Oz.
He also expressed interest in the use of insurance companies’ insurance companies that reduce the number of services of insurance companies and use in advance permission for approval of medical procedures that will be subject to review.
Republican Medicide intends to cut
Democrats looked most disappointing with Dr. Oz’s stance on the medicated, which is a state federal program that covers 72 million less income Americans. “All my colleagues want to know, are you cutting medcid?” Washington’s Democrat Senator Maria Kent Well asked.
But Dr. Oz, who has not talked much about the program that he will also monitor as the head of the agency, did not respond directly. He said he did not know the details of the Republican budget debate, in which the lawmakers were looking at hundreds of billions of dollars, which could result in loss of people’s coverage as it made it more difficult to enter and the states had to shoulder the burden.
When Georgia’s Democrats inquire of Senator Rafael Warnok, some people to show that Republican efforts to add a burdening monthly paperwork to gain benefits to them, Dr. Oz said they are supportive of the needs of the work they want to restrict Republican eligibility. But he agreed with the Senator to ensure that those who were eligible for medical were not disconnected.
Dr. Oz and his supplement business
There were other articles from which senators looked away. For example, Dr. Oz has earned tens of millions of dollars in many years to promote dietary supplements, often without mentioning his financial interest. Many medical and health firms have been paid for displaying their products. Many of these companies will be influenced by any decisions as the organizer of medical and medical services centers, and many are already benefiting from financing the agencies.
New Hampshire’s Democrat, Senator Maggie Hassan, told her to put a dollar data on what she made from promoting supplements on TV shows at her day. He said he was not given anything. He began to explain that Sony Pictures distributed the show, and that he was a person paid by these companies (as a result of which he pays it), but he was disconnected. Finally, Ms Hassan was unable to remove something meaningful and moved on.
Patients’ privacy and discourse
At the hearing, Mr. Weden pressured Dr. Oz’s private medical information about the so -called department of government to deliver the performance of Elon Musk. Mr Weden raised concerns about the need for people’s privacy protection in view of personal health and possible ability to look at medical data. Despite his repeated questions, he said, the Trump administration had not yet raised these concerns. Surprisingly, Dr. Oz said he had no talks with the administration as to what Mr Musk’s team was doing while inspecting the agency’s information, but he promised that “address what is happening.”
Measles
The spread of measles in Texas and New Mexico has raised concerns over the response of Mr Kennedy and the Trump administration. New Mexico’s Democrat, Senator Ben Ray Login asked Dr. Oz whether he believed the measles vaccine was safe. Dr. Oz said that he did so, but when the Senator asked if it was effective, Dr. Oz withdrew that it would not be within his scope to decide on individual vaccines and use their recommendations, but would be under the control and prevention centers of the disease.
“My job, if it is confirmed, is to make sure we pay these vaccines,” he said.
