Summary
Dr. Mehmet Oz, TV personality and former Senate candidate, has been nominated by Donald Trump to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which oversees health coverage for over 160 million Americans.
Oz, a cardiothoracic surgeon and former host of “The Dr. Oz Show,” has faced criticism for promoting unproven medical treatments, including hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19.
The nomination comes amid contentious Medicare drug price negotiations under the Inflation Reduction Act, which are being challenged by pharmaceutical companies.
The role requires Senate confirmation.
Oh boy, I can’t wait to not be able to afford my medication for my autoimmune disease and die by vomiting blood until I exsanguinate! Thanks abstainers!
Have you tried not having a pre-existing condition?
They’ll say this is a feature not a bug.
It’s OK, if RFK Jr goes ahead and eliminates vaccines and infectious disease research, as he has stated he will, it’s likely something else will kill us first.
Hey! Cause of death can’t be of a disease if they can’t test for it taps temple
“Cause of death: Act of God”
Oz has been a major supporter of Medicare Advantage, the program’s private sector alternative that has grown in popularity but has come under intense scrutiny for care denials and alleged overbilling.
In case you didn’t RTFA: This is the grift
Trump’s motto: Always Be Grifting
Make America Grift Always
Trump and his cronies want to privatize the world. That’s the end goal. Gut all government agencies and sell them off to Elon or some private equity firm. If you want to live in the future they’re building it’s gonna be pay to play. You want healthcare, pay for it. You want education, pay for it. You want oxygen, pay for it!
….and 76 million people voted for it. 76 million people have fucked over 260 million people all cause they drank the orange kool-aid.
We did it… We taught those Democrats a lesson… Yay…
Don’t worry, a majority of voters will think the impending enshittification is all the Democrats fault by the time the next (if any) election comes along.
There was a lesson, but it hasn’t been taught yet. This is just the trailer of the film, coming in January. Title: “Oh no.”
There’s no lesson to be learned. They will blame it on the Dems for not being attractive enough. They’re still saying that about 2016.
I hate this country so much.
Haha, oh wow. You guys over there really are fucked.
What in the fuck! One of biggest medical grifters in medicine is going to be in charge of billions of dollars of federal money? I really hope we lose everything this is Idiocracy 2.0.
At least in Idiocracy the President selected the smartest person to do the work.
You’re surprised? I wouldn’t have been surprised if Dr Phil was his pick.
This guy is worse
Yeah somehow dr.Phil would be the better pick, which is funny as hell to me.
This is a sex-positive fully automated future where we put the best and brightest in charge of things?
People will be wondering how these people can suddenly all afford private jets and pedo islands.
Oh good, a guy who uses the word “magic” too many times for medicine is gonna do great…
Let’s hope he drops the TV persona.
One, surgeons were already the dumb jocks of the medical community, relatively speaking. I know he’s got some legitimately brilliant feathers in his cap, but that brings us to…
Two, other than techbros, MD’s are maybe the worst offenders in the category of “I’m smart about some things, therefore I can easily intuit my way to mastery of all things, I have no blind spots, and my prejudices are simply common sense.”
Three, the man has been in a fame bubble for twenty plus years now.
I mean, Ben Carson is a legitimate dumbass.
BUT, he can cut conjoined twins in half. He’s good at that.
But on everything ELSE: certified dumbshit.
Anyone can cut conjoined twins in half
There are definitely some doctors that are susceptible to this (especially surgeons) but it’s worth pointing out that there are relatively few doctors in the billionaire class and doctors in general have not brought upon societal decay in the way that techbros have.
Most doctors spend their career simply treating patients under some type of corporate or insurance owned overlord.
there are relatively few doctors in the billionaire class
And HOO BOY do some of them know it! 🤣
The broader point is well taken, though.
Oh my fucking God I cannot take this fucking clown show anymore.
Is he just picking people he sees on TV?
I read the explanation that Trump doesn’t read but watches the telly and he is not building a cabinet but a cast. Bigger, louder and more exposure is better. Then it sort of makes sense.
How big of a fit do you think he threw when he was told he couldn’t nominate Hannibal Lecter for anything because you can’t be fictional and run a government department?
Well, I mean Trump is a former reality TV star so birds of a feather and all.
You know… Come on, Russia. Send those bombs and let’s wrap this up.
Why would they bomb their own country?
Why not get Dr.fucking Phil to be head of all mental facilities and everything mental. So he can push more people to suicide because he has nothing worthwhile to add or say to help people. Just go fucking full circle.
Ol’ Phil may have a tiny vestigial conscience, and I do mean tiny, but it still may be disqualifying for this administration.
Was Jerry Springer already booked?
Springer was a lawyer and mayor, at least he’d bring some qualifications.
He’s quite dead, so he would likely cause less harm than Oz will.
Make America a joke again
I like The Onion as much as the next guy but I don’t think it’s appropriate here
Holy fuck.
Thanks Oprah
