Experts say there are pros and cons to having doctors in the House…and Senate.
, Oz says if elected he'll focus on expensive prescription drugs for seniors and expand access to private sector health plans expanded by President Trump, who has endorsed his candidacy.
"I think that many people who are voting are going to be voting in the shadow of rising gas prices, inflation, and potentially dissatisfaction with the Democrats in power," said Hopkins.If elected, Oz would be among 17 other physicians in Congress, including the members of the GOP Doctors Caucus.
"There are a lot of complicated and complex issues that we need to unpack, so having people who are more informed is going to be important," said Jain, an internist in Los Angeles. "I watched more broadly through the pandemic a lot of physicians who had no particular expertise on COVID making a lot of statements about specific treatments, vaccinations, and the value of certain preventive measures, while we were operating at a time of a lot of ambiguity," said Jain.Timothy Caulfield, LLB, LLM, BSc, Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy at the University of Alberta, Canada, noticed this trait specifically in Oz.
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