President-elect Donald Trump has named two more people to his administration,

investment banker Howard Lutnik as Commerce Secretary, and Dr. Mehmet Oz,

the noted TV personality and heart surgeon, to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Dr. Oz will oversee programs that provide health care coverage to about half of all Americans.

His talk show, which ran for nearly 15 years, was one of the most popular during the daytime.

But he's pushed questionable medical treatments, not backed by experts and has sometimes promoted misinformation.

In making the announcement, Mr. Trump said that Dr. Oz fit right in with the Make America

Healthy campaign.

Lev Fasher of Statt News has been following Oz's career, and he joins me now.

Lev, thanks for being with us.

So you profile Dr. Oz back during his Senate run in 2022 in Pennsylvania.

And back then, you pointed out that while he is a medical doctor and a noted heart surgeon,

he also spent much of his career embracing untruths, as you put it.

What did you mean by that?

And what kind of reaction are you hearing to him being named to lead CMS?

That's right.

This is someone who, in the course of his famous TV show, his career as a celebrity doctor, essentially, was known for promoting weight loss supplements that didn't have any evidence to support their use.

He at one point tweeted about astrology being a valuable tool to learn health information from.

So he has a lengthy track record of that kind of dubious statement,

to put it mildly, he once even got in trouble with the Food and Drug Administration

for suggesting that common brands of apple juice have unsafe levels of arsenic.

So as you can imagine, there's a lot of concern being expressed in the public

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