{"id":2845,"date":"2025-04-03T23:02:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T23:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/oz-confirmed-by-senate-as-cms-medicare-medicaid-head\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T23:02:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T23:02:46","slug":"oz-confirmed-by-senate-as-cms-medicare-medicaid-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/oz-confirmed-by-senate-as-cms-medicare-medicaid-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate confirms Oz as head of agency that runs Medicare, Medicaid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Senate confirms Oz as head of agency that runs Medicare, Medicaid<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 In a party-line vote of 53-45, the Senate on Thursday confirmed Mehmet Oz to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.<\/p>\n<p>Oz\u2019s confirmation was expected; he is not as controversial as Health and Human Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. or some other Trump picks to run health agencies within the HHS.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/04\/03\/oz-confirmed-by-senate-as-cms-medicare-medicaid-head\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    John Wilkerson<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/04\/03\/oz-confirmed-by-senate-as-cms-medicare-medicaid-head\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate confirms Oz as head of agency that runs Medicare, Medicaid WASHINGTON \u2014 In a party-line vote of 53-45, the Senate on Thursday confirmed Mehmet Oz to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Oz\u2019s confirmation was expected; he is not as controversial as Health and Human Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. or some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2157,1428,2214,2215,2266,2144,2149],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-2845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health","category-medicaid","category-medicare","category-medicare-advantage","category-politics","category-rfk-jr","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}