Eloise Goldsmith is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
Dr. Mehmet Oz , whose unsuccessful 2022 Pennsylvania Senate bid included pitching voters on a plan to expand the privatized Medicare Advantage program, is now in a position to potentially actualize that plan. President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Oz, also known by his TV personality name Dr. Oz, is his pick to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services . 'Dr.
Project 2025, a list of right-wing policy proposals led by the Heritage Foundation that Trump has tried to distance himself from, calls for making Medicare Advantage the default option for Medicare beneficiaries, which, if enacted, 'would be a multibillion-dollar annual giveaway to corporations at the expense of Medicare enrollees and taxpayers,' according to the liberal research and advocacy organization the Center for American Progress.
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