WASHINGTON – President-elect Trump revealed HHS and CMS picks last week with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. chosen to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Mehmet Oz, a TV personality/physician who gained fame during numerous appearances on the Oprah Winfrey show, to head up CMS.

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 added in a statement.

“On and off the screen, he has used his influence as one of the nation’s most recognizable doctors to champion healthy habits like a nutritious diet,” wrote New York Times reporters Dani Blum, Emily Schmall, and Nina Agrawal in a lengthy article. “But he has also sown misinformation—about Covid treatments, weight loss hacks and unproven supplements.”

During two decades as a public figure, The Times reports: “Dr. Oz has drawn the ire of medical experts, members of Congress and even his own peers, including a group of 10 doctors who called for him to be fired from a faculty position at Columbia University, arguing he had shown a disdain for science.”