Mehmet Oz, TV personality, heart surgeon, and medical product pitchman, would likely be a colorful, controversial, and conservative leader of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services under President-elect Donald Trump.
But he’s also a man with a plan. And in 2020, he co-authored a stunning proposal to provide universal health coverage through the popular, but costly, Medicare Advantage program.
Trump’s return to the White House and pending Republican control of the House and Senate offer a path forward for the plan that combines Democrats’ long-held desire to protect the uninsured with Republicans’ penchant for market-based health-care solutions.
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