Trump nominated doctor Mehmet Öz as the head of federal health services

US President-elect Donald Trump has announced that he has nominated Mehmet Öz, a doctor of Turkish descent, to the position of director of the federal health services for Medicare and Medicaid. Trump said that America is facing a serious health crisis and there is no better doctor than himself to deal with these problems.

US President-elect Donald Trump announced on the Truth Social social network that he has nominated Mehmet Oz, a doctor of Turkish origin, to be the director of the federal health services (CMS) for Medicare and Medicaid.

Trump said that America is facing a serious health crisis and there is no better doctor than himself to deal with these problems.

Referring to the educational life and career of Mehmet Öz at Harvard University, Trump emphasized that he can solve many problems in the American healthcare system.

In the United States, Medicare is the federal health insurance carrier that provides medical services to seniors over 65 years of age. Medicaid, on the other hand, operates as a joint federal and state program that provides health insurance services to low-income groups.

In the US, the federal government will spend $860 billion on Medicare and $848 billion on Medicaid in 2023.

According to "Wikipedia", Mehmet Cengiz Oz is a Turkish-American doctor, presenter and politician. He is vice chancellor and professor of surgery at Columbia University and directs the Cardiovascular Institute and Complementary Medicine Program at New York Presbyterian Hospital. Mehmet Oz was born on June 11, 1960 in the city of Cleveland, Ohio, USA, in the family of Mustafa Oz from Konya, who was a doctor like himself.