ableism as patriotism
Trump’s New Medicaid Chief Has Boneheaded Idea to Lower Drug Costs | The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/post/194158/donald-trump-medicaid-chief-dr-oz-idea-lower-drug-costs
There’s something rich about Dr Oz claiming it’s an American’s “patriotic duty” to stay healthy when he’s in an administration actively trying to cut healthcare, abortion access, vaccines & public health (not to mention banning masks).
America is one of the only developed nations that doesn’t have universal healthcare. They refuse to acknowledge it as a basic human right. Surely that is also “unpatriotic”?
Dr Oz: “It is the patriotic duty of all Americans to take care of themselves. It’s important for serving in the military, but it’s also important because healthy people don’t consume healthcare resources.”
They’re all eugenicists. They only care about if you can pay taxes & serve in military.
If you “consume resources”? You’re expendable. Unwanted. Useless eater.
Eugenics and fascism always go hand in hand.
https://deadline.com/2025/04/dr-oz-trump-oval-office-1236371948/
Idiot says what now?
#DrOz Pushed for #AI #HealthCare in First #Medicare Agency Town Hall
Dr. Oz, who now controls the Centers for Medicare & #Medicaid Services & its $1.5 trillion budget, promoted the idea that AI avatars could replace frontline health care workers.
#health #medicine #PublicHealth #Trump #idiocracy #kakistocracy
https://www.wired.com/story/dr-oz-ai-health-care-medicare-cms-town-hall/
#DrOz as the medicare/medicaid czar is too on-the-nose for even a TRANSMETROPOLITAN throwaway gag
Un-fucking-believable
Senate confirmed #MehmetOz to oversee #HealthInsurance for millions of Americans
TV’s “#DrOz” & known quack has been confirmed to lead the Centers for #Medicare & #Medicaid Services, which has a massive $1 trillion+ budget & oversees health insurance for millions of Americans.
Dr. #Oz ‘Disavows’ Support for #Transgender Care, Allaying a Senator’s Concerns
Senator Josh #Hawley, a #Republican , pressed Dr. Oz on transgender care and #abortion, and now says he will vote for the physician’s confirmation to become head of #Medicare and #Medicaid.
#droz
I'm sure Oz is selling a supplement that's just as good as Medicaid...
Dr. Oz Won’t Commit To Protecting Medicaid
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/dr-oz-protecting-medicaid-senate-hearing-1235296719/
Rachel #Maddow has been posting these "Public Servant Announcements" reviewing #PizzaTheHut's wildly unqualified & questionable sycophantic cabinet nominees, starting with #DrOz for head of #Medicare & #Medicaid Services:
https://mastodon.social/@MugsysRapSheet/113742051086532707
#RachelMaddow has been releasing these "Public Servant Announcements", providing critical info on #TheOrangeMenace's wildly unqualified, incompetent, and even potentially dangerous picks to fill his #cabinet & lead crucial gov't agencies.
Her latest was T****'s pick to run #Medicare: #DrOz (and I thought #Tulsi was bad.)
I encourage you to watch the prior three clips as well for #Gabbard, #KristiNoem & #MattWhitaker.) #JFC #DisasterPresidency #CabinetOfIncompetents
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/rachel-maddow-on-dr-mehmet-oz-five-things-about-trump-s-pick-to-lead-medicare-medicaid-services-227885125965
The upcoming healthcare trajectory under Trump's administration
What am I thankful for?
I'm thankful that H5N1 hasn't yet mutated to become easily transmissible P2P.
Oh, wait. Maybe it already has and we just don't know it yet because we're hardly doing any monitoring in the U.S.
I'm not generally a superstitious person. But if another pandemic is imminent, 2025 would be the year for a perfect storm, with anti-vaxxer, conspiracy theorist RFK Jr. heading HHS; Great Barrington co-author and anti-public health hawk Jay Bhattacharya heading NIH; and anti-science TV quack Doc Oz heading medicare. And let's not forget, former Florida Representative Dave Weldon as admin for the CDC, Marty Makary as commissioner of FDA, and Fox News TV quack Janette Nesheiwat as surgeon general. All 3 are anti-science conspiracy nuts. Each has spread vaccine misinformation. All oppose gender-affirming care for transgender individuals.
If any of y'all are worried about H5N1, don't be. It's just like the flu.
#DrOz is a quack. https://is.gd/H3F8SP #Kakistocracy here, there, everywhere. #TheResistance #Politics
"In addition to eroding our democracy and constitutional norms, the incoming Trump Administration presents one of the greatest modern threats to the safety, health, and well-being of American families.
A plurality of American voters decided they were fine with possibly dying just to temporarily feel great again."
~ Wajahat Ali
#health #PublicPolicy #RFKJr #DrOz #JosephLapado #Trump
/5
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/maga-makes-death-great-again
Benjamin Mazer calls what Trump's proposing to do to public medicine with his nominations the "revenge of the COVID contrarians." "They’re angry at the public-health establishment. Now they’re in control of it," he says. And:
What unites them all—and what legitimizes them in the eyes of this next administration—is a lasting rage over COVID."
#health #PublicPolicy #RFKJr #DrOz #JosephLapado #Trump
/4
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/11/covid-revenge-administration/680790/
