Summary
Dr. Mehmet Oz, TV personality and former Senate candidate, has been nominated by Donald Trump to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which oversees health coverage for over 160 million Americans.
Oz, a cardiothoracic surgeon and former host of “The Dr. Oz Show,” has faced criticism for promoting unproven medical treatments, including hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19.
The nomination comes amid contentious Medicare drug price negotiations under the Inflation Reduction Act, which are being challenged by pharmaceutical companies.
The role requires Senate confirmation.
I like The Onion as much as the next guy but I don’t think it’s appropriate here
Oz has been a major supporter of Medicare Advantage, the program’s private sector alternative that has grown in popularity but has come under intense scrutiny for care denials and alleged overbilling.
In case you didn’t RTFA: This is the grift
Trump’s motto: Always Be Grifting
Make America Grift Always
Oh boy, I can’t wait to not be able to afford my medication for my autoimmune disease and die by vomiting blood until I exsanguinate! Thanks abstainers!
Make sure to aim at a Republican when you vom.
It’s pretty gruesome. Black and thick, like charcoal dust. I hope whatever fascist I die on is scarred for life.
Damn, I just get internal scarring and organ failure. The blood cannon sounds way cooler.
The obviousness of it literally saved my life. Last time it happened I was still in college and living at home. Threw up in the bathroom, and weakly staggered to my room, thinking it was dark because I’d drank a cola just before. I was ready to lay there and fall asleep until I felt better.
My mother, luckily, was home, noticed that there was half-washed out black slurry in the toilet and sink, recognized it as blood, unlike me at the time, and worriedly asked me if everything was alright. I said, “Yeah, mom, I’m fine, just a little nauseous.” and she said fuck no, that’s not cutting it, we’re taking you to the hospital.
I had to get blood transfusions. They weren’t sure I was going to make it. If I’d passed out on the floor of my room like I intended to wait it out, I’d’ve probably died. Gave my poor mother a terrible fright.
That is hard fuckin core
Isn’t it? I’m glad I got a disease with cool symptoms and not just pooping myself to death, dysentery style. This way I at least have a cool story I can tell XD
Well damn it, why the fuck did I get the ‘can’t eat food’ disease when I could have had an awesome ‘projectile vomiting blood’ disease?!
Unfortunately, it comes with some “don’t eat food” restrictions. I love buffalo chicken, but it has to be a rare and prepared for treat. 😞
As someone who has an entirely liquid-based diet, I would love just some food restrictions. Plus, I don’t get to projectile vomit blood.
I do look good after losing all this weight though, so I guess that’s nice.
metal
Have you tried not having a pre-existing condition?
Yeah well, but you don’t like them anyway, so it’s a win for them!
(Very sarcastic /s, because American healthcare is a bad joke and everybody deserves a good life).
Edit:
everybody deserves a good life
Except those assholes. They can masturbate with a running blender.
They’ll say this is a feature not a bug.
Thanks, Oprah.
You might enjoy the podcast Maintenance Phase if you don’t already know it. They have a Dr Oz episode and Oprah has a few of her own too.
Giving it a spin right now.
Is he just picking people he sees on TV?
I read the explanation that Trump doesn’t read but watches the telly and he is not building a cabinet but a cast. Bigger, louder and more exposure is better. Then it sort of makes sense.
Well, I mean Trump is a former reality TV star so birds of a feather and all.
How big of a fit do you think he threw when he was told he couldn’t nominate Hannibal Lecter for anything because you can’t be fictional and run a government department?
Trump knows he lost in 2020, and he hates America for it. That’s why we’re getting TV show people and child rapists.
Trump wants like minded people in his team!
Trump wants to cause as much damage as possible because he’s a traitor
We did it… We taught those Democrats a lesson… Yay…
Don’t worry, a majority of voters will think the impending enshittification is all the Democrats fault by the time the next (if any) election comes along.
There was a lesson, but it hasn’t been taught yet. This is just the trailer of the film, coming in January. Title: “Oh no.”
Why not get Dr.fucking Phil to be head of all mental facilities and everything mental. So he can push more people to suicide because he has nothing worthwhile to add or say to help people. Just go fucking full circle.
Ol’ Phil may have a tiny vestigial conscience, and I do mean tiny, but it still may be disqualifying for this administration.
Oh good, a guy who uses the word “magic” too many times for medicine is gonna do great…
Let’s hope he drops the TV persona.
One, surgeons were already the dumb jocks of the medical community, relatively speaking. I know he’s got some legitimately brilliant feathers in his cap, but that brings us to…
Two, other than techbros, MD’s are maybe the worst offenders in the category of “I’m smart about some things, therefore I can easily intuit my way to mastery of all things, I have no blind spots, and my prejudices are simply common sense.”
Three, the man has been in a fame bubble for twenty plus years now.
I mean, Ben Carson is a legitimate dumbass.
BUT, he can cut conjoined twins in half. He’s good at that.
But on everything ELSE: certified dumbshit.
There are definitely some doctors that are susceptible to this (especially surgeons) but it’s worth pointing out that there are relatively few doctors in the billionaire class and doctors in general have not brought upon societal decay in the way that techbros have.
Most doctors spend their career simply treating patients under some type of corporate or insurance owned overlord.
there are relatively few doctors in the billionaire class
And HOO BOY do some of them know it! 🤣
The broader point is well taken, though.
Was Jerry Springer already booked?
He’s quite dead, so he would likely cause less harm than Oz will.
Springer was a lawyer and mayor, at least he’d bring some qualifications.
Ha ha ha. Yet another con man on the team!
The Lizard of Oz
Another Q uack in the cabinet
We’re going to have so many years of unwinding all of the terrible changes that are coming our way. If we ever have the chance to unwind them.
What people have get to realize is when you say years, most people have no idea of how many years.
We are looking at 40 years before this is fixed.
