Mehmet Oz confirmed by US Senate to lead Medicare and Medicaid
Mehmet Oz confirmed by US Senate to lead Medicare and Medicaid
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Mehmet Oz confirmed by US Senate to lead Medicare and Medicaid
Summary
The Senate confirmed Dr. Mehmet Oz as head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in a 53-45 party-line vote.
Oz will oversee healthcare for over half the U.S. population, including Medicare, Medicaid, and ACA programs, amid debates over Medicaid cuts.
He supports work requirements for Medicaid recipients.
He’s also embraced RFK Jr.‘s campaign to redesign the country’s food supply, reject vaccine mandates, and cast doubt on some long-established scientific research.
It's soul crushing at this point to see how effectively a bad actor can fuck up the US. A carnival barker is nominating arsonists and telling everyone the bonfire is going to be amazing and loved by all, and instead of giving consideration to what the fuel for the bonfire will be, the half of the Senate comprised of arsonists and pyromaniacs has decided the bonfire must be funded at all costs and should be the biggest bonfire ever.
I fucking hate this. Fuck fascists.
I think it's gone underappreciated how much a government depends more on the quality of the people in power than the structure of government.
Yup. We have the people that destroy 100 yr corporations for their personal profit in charge... It's gonna be great.....
Especially by the nonfascist party with any power.
Part of what makes the Dem leadership so damn inept at protecting the people from the abuses of the GOP is their reverence for the "sanctity" of the systems and processes making them accept unacceptable outcomes.
For all the awful things that they do (which is pretty much everything they ever do), the GOP are right about one thing: in politics, getting the desired results is more important than following procedure.
That they're being so hamfisted about it that they're causing a shitload of unintended harm and that their goals are themselves extremely harmful to the vast majority of the people means that they're still not right to do it though, of course..
Bruh it's not a bad actor, this couldn't have been done if our politicians weren't so greedy, and actually gave a damn about the American people.
As a fire performer in the circus, please don't compare us to this trash heap. The circus is full of queer outcasts, and anyone in theater knows how much work is involved in a show.
Russia is extremely happy about all of this.