Dr. Oz holds a plethora of investments in healthcare, pharmaceutical, health insurance and health research companies

Trump's nomination of Dr Oz has raised eyebrows, as a history of big pharma financial ties and questionable science hangs over him.

President-elect Trump said Tuesday he is nominating television personality and Dr. Mehmet Oz to serve as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator. Oz unsuccessfully ran for Senate in Pennsylvania in 2022 with Trump’s endorsement and has been a Trump ally ever since.

"Not since the Wizard of Oz himself has there been a bigger fraud than this guy," said Brad Woodhouse, executive director of Protect Our Care, a Washington-based nonprofit focused on expanding access to quality healthcare,

Mehmet Oz, a celebrity heart surgeon turned talk show host and lifestyle guru, is President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the massive federal health care bureaucracy that covers more than a third of Americans.

President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to run the sprawling government agency that administers Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act marketplace — celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz — recently held broad investments in health care,

Dr. Mehmet Oz, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has a mandate from Trump to "take on the illness industrial complex" and to cut costs.