Dr. Mehmet Oz is the latest in a string of controversial nominations by Donald Trump. -AP
US President-elect Donald Trump has chosen celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz to serve as administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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Oz, known as Dr. Oz, unsuccessfully ran for the US Senate in 2022. Trump, who endorsed Oz in that race, said he would work closely with Robert F Kennedy Jr, who has been nominated to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
Trump said the pair would take on "the illness industrial complex, and all the horrible chronic diseases left in its wake" as well as cutting what he called waste and fraud.
"Our broken Healthcare System harms everyday Americans, and crushes our country's budget," Trump said in a statement, saying Oz would be a leader in "incentivising disease prevention".
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