Mehmet Oz: Trump put Medicare in the hands of Erdogan’s scientist friend

One of the astir iconic portfolios successful wellness care, that of the head of the Center for Health Care Services, which “runs” Medicare and Medicaid, destines the well-known telecaster doc and Pennsylvania Senate candidate, Mehmet Oz (“Dr. Oz”), the recently elected U.S. President, Donald Trump.

“America is facing a healthcare situation and determination whitethorn not beryllium a doc much qualified and susceptible than Dr. Oz to marque America steadfast again,” Donald Trump said yesterday successful announcing his intentions for Mehmet Oz, who was defeated successful the 2022 Senate midterm predetermination by John Fetterman, successful 1 of the astir important electoral states successful the United States. At the aforesaid time, the recently elected president yesterday praised “Dr. Oz”, adjacent though for a portion of the US world and aesculapian assemblage helium remains a arguable fig and an advocator of alternate therapies and slimming methods.

This, coupled with Robert Kennedy Jr’s prime for the Department of Health and Human Services focused attraction connected the US healthcare sector, each the much truthful erstwhile the Center, which has work for Medicare and Medicaid absorbs successful spending 25% of the national budget, oregon $1.6 trillion.

However, Mehmet Oz remains firmly successful the thoughts of Donald Trump, whom helium appointed successful 2018 to the President’s Council connected Sports, Fitness and Nutrition and openly supported successful the 2022 midterm elections.

From the studios to politics

The Telstar doc and Turkish national, Mehmet who has his prima connected “Avenue of Glory” successful Hollywood, aspires to go a shining prima of the American governmental scene, aft claiming to beryllium the Republican front-runner for Congress from the authorities of Pennsylvania successful 2022.

A palmy radial thoracic surgeon, “celebrity doctor,” adjacent subordinate of Oprah Winfrey, and big of the eponymous telemedicine amusement “The Dr. Oz Show” (which has won 10 Emmys), “Dr. Oz” had Trump’s wholehearted enactment successful the midterm elections, astatine a clip erstwhile his affable relations with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his existent intentions for U.S. overseas argumentation were nether the spotlight.

A person of galore of the world-class US stars, with a glamorous lifestyle, immense net from 8 best-selling alternate medicine and self-help books helium has authored, and untold profits from TV productions, Mehmet Oz was not contented with fiscal comfortableness and his pan-American tv fame but attempted his introduction into Congress by “liquidating” his medical-medical way astatine the Philadelphia polls.

Born successful Cleveland, Ohio, the kid of Turkish immigrants, with dual citizenship, American and Turkish, and Muslim successful religion, Mehmet Oz graduated from Harvard Medical School and past worked astatine large U.S. aesculapian centers, astir precocious NY Presbyterian-Columbia Medical Center, having taught astatine Columbia University successful between.

Unmistakably, Mehmet Oz, 64, would embody the Turkish mentation of the “American dream” to the fullest grade if helium did not garbage to renounce his Turkish citizenship (although dual citizenship is allowed by law), contempt being a imaginable campaigner for the US Congress, causing skepticism successful overmuch of the American press.

Otherwise, his glamorous and palmy nonrecreational vocation successful the US, unneurotic with the immense sanction designation helium enjoys, seems to person flooded each idiosyncratic resistance, arsenic helium was besides the archetypal Muslim Senate campaigner to passionately combat against “Islamophobia” successful the US connected societal media.

After all, Mehmet Oz enjoys the afloat enactment of the caller US president, who did not hesitate to look connected the celebrated TV amusement successful 2016, erstwhile helium was past vying for the White House. During the years of Trump’s presidency, Mehmet Oz was tapped to the President’s Council connected Sports and Nutrition, and successful enactment of his candidacy, Donald Trump toured Pennsylvania specifically for him connected the run trail.

In summation to Donald Trump, Mehmet Oz besides maintains affable ties with the president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and his administration, according to the Washington Post, portion photos of the Erdogan mates chatting with the celebrated TV big were posted connected societal media by the Turkish Embassy successful Washington up of the 2022 midterm elections.

Mehmet Oz’s conflation, moreover, of respective long-standing positions of the Erdogan presidency, specified arsenic the Senate candidate’s non-recognition of the Armenian Genocide, had antecedently agreed the Greek-American, Jewish, and Armenian diaspora successful the US, whose representatives gathered extracurricular the “Dr. Oz” run headquarters, asking Pennsylvania voters to “stop him.”