Tag: Medicare

  • Mehmet Oz once proposed massive changes to Medicare. Now he could run it.

    Mehmet Oz once proposed massive changes to Medicare. Now he could run it.

    WASHINGTON — When President-elect Donald Trump picked Dr. Mehmet Oz for a powerful executive branch job overseeing Medicare, incoming Senate Finance Committee Chair Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, quickly praised the TV-famous physician and said he looked forward to considering his coming nomination. “Far too often, patients relying on federal government health care programs are forced to…