Democrats try to paint Dr. Oz as a seller of ‘snake oil’ during the audience

Dr. Mehmet Oz He was criticized for his detractors during a Senate confirmation audience on Friday in Capitol Hill for promoting alternative health treatments, with a Democrat who called him the “more ridiculous welfare noise” he had seen.

Oz presented his plans for the agency, including the possible reforms he is considering, during a confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Finance Committee. The Committee will soon vote on whether it will advance in the OZ nomination to become the next director of the Medicare and Medicaid Services Center to the Complete Senate agency.

While Oz’s medical experience was not widely challenged on Friday, his motivations were. Nicknamed “America’s Doctor” by Oprah Winfrey, Oz used his television platform sometimes to promote alternative health remedies, Guaranteeing of questionable weight loss solutions such as green coffee extract and raspberry ketones.

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Dr. Mehmet Oz, the election of President Donald Trump to direct the services centers of Medicare and Medicaid, is facing the Senate Finance Committee, in Capitol Hill in Washington, on Friday. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Senator Maggie Hassan, Dn.H., He sought that Oz admitted that his promotion of certain supplements for weight loss, such as green coffee extract, was fraudulent. While Oz admitted that green coffee extract is not a miraculous drug of weight loss, he argued that he never promoted it as such.

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“There are many things that I said in the program. I am very proud The investigation At that time we did it to identify which of these it worked and which did not. Many of them are still being investigated, such as the extract of green coffee beans that you just mentioned, “Oz told Hassan. The senator then asked how much they paid him to promote these products, to which Oz replied that he received nothing.

Dr. Mehmet Oz, choice of President Donald Trump to direct the services centers of Medicare and Medicaid, greets Senator Marsha Blackburn, Republican of Tenn., As Senator Roger Marshall, Republican of Kan., Look before OZ testifies at his confirmation audience before the Finance Committee of the Senate, in Capitol Hill on Friday. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

But Oz’s statement was not paid to promote the products did not convince Hassan, who indicated press reports that narrate the “Dr. Oz effect”, a phenomenon in which the sales of products he backed down would shoot after appearing in his program.

“That was written by the press,” Oz told Hassan. Hassan then argued that Oz seemed “that he was not willing to assume the responsibility of (its) promotion of snake oil remedies.”

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OZ’s financial ties with a litany of companies that cover many corners of the Health sector, Including nutritional supplements, it has been a point of scrutiny for its detractors. In an ethics presentation that was presented before the audience, OZ indicated that it would undo its participations in more than 70 companies and investment funds that could raise possible conflicts of interest.

One of those companies is IHERB, a retailer of online supplements, which represents one of OZ’s largest financial participations. According to their ethics presentation, OZ holdings in Iherb are worth up to $ 25 million.

Dr. Mehmet Oz ran for a seat in the Senate in Pennsylvania in 2022, but finally lost his attempt by Democrat John Fetterman. (Mark Makela/Getty images)

As CMS administrator, OZ would make decisions related to the way in which the government covers procedures, hospital stays and medicine Within federal medical care programs, as well as reimbursement rates in which medical care providers are paid for their services. Oz, if confirmed, in theory could take measures to obtain federal medical care programs, such as Medicaid and Medicare, to cover a greater amount of supplements that have not covered.

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A vote of the committee to decide whether to send OZ to Complete Senate It has not yet been programmed. You will have to obtain at least 50 votes in the complete Senate to be confirmed.