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At the meeting, Oz talks a lot about the history of his family, the origin of his name and his educational origin in Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania (including his football career) before talking about CMS.

The CMS told CMS employees that it was their “patriotic obligation” to take care of themselves, as this would help reduce healthcare costs by citing the cost of management of Medicare and Medicaid across the country. (During his hay Hearing to confirm For the CMS OZ administrator, it also claims that “our patriotic duty is to be healthy”, connecting personal exercises to the overall reduction in the cost of Medicare and Medicaid.)

Oz spoke long during the US obesity meeting and what CMS costs without citing proven statistics. He said addressing obesity is one of his main priorities. (The Biden Administration suggested that Medicare and Medicaid cover the cost of weight loss medicines, an initiative that The So far, the Trump administration has declined to expand. Oz has repeatedly expressed criticism of promotion. “Miracle“Weight loss is treated The show of e -r oz.)

“I’m not sure he knows what we’re doing here,” said an CMS employee who listens to the call. “He was talking about eating and exercise. It doesn’t do Medicare. We take care of people in nursing homes. We are dealing with the dying people.”

When asked how he would prefer to be informed on complex issues of policy, Oz told employees, You will find that I am not on purpose but deliberately naive about many problemsS Sources tell Wired that this seems like a surrounded way to say that it is not focused on personal or political motives, but the facts. Oz also claims that CMS has to do a better job of dealing with “fraud and waste” at the agency, two alleged goals of Elon Musk and its so-called Ministry of Government Efficiency.

Oz also approved Maha: made again America healthy, HHS priority This was originally the milestone of the RFK Jr. 2024. At the CMS meeting, Oz stated that Maha was all about “curiosity”. (Kennedy, who has supported Maha, also has repeatedly and dangerous Promoted anti-vaxine opinions, doctors and activists.)

“The reinforcements come to the agency,” Oz said, talking about doctors and clinicians, who claims to have remained or are left outside the work of CMS; Or even those who would not want to work in CMS before.

The idea of ​​bringing new people to CMS, where hundreds of employees have recently been fired as part of a Reduction Reduction (RIF) at HHSHe upset those who attended the meeting. “It was frankly offensive to CMS employees,” a source says. “We have incredible people here.”

Update 4/8/24 18:20 ET: This story has been updated to include a CMS speaker statement.