Dr. Oz had up to $33 million in companies doing business with agency he'd run
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🗓️ 14 December 2024
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USA TODAY Democracy Reporter Erin Mansfield explains how Dr. Mehmet Oz - President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - held millions in companies tied to Medicare.
A judge upholds the guilty plea of Trump co-defendant Kenneth Chesebro in the Georgia election case.
USA TODAY White House Correspondent Joey Garrison discusses how President Joe Biden is trying to Trump-proof his legacy.
McKinsey will pay $650 million after advising an opioid maker on how to 'turbocharge' sales.
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| 0:00.0 | Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to USA Today's The Excerpt, Ad-Free right now. |
| 0:05.6 | Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app. |
| 0:12.4 | Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson, and today is Saturday, December 14th, 2024. |
| 0:18.2 | This is the excerpt. |
| 0:27.0 | Today, taking a look at Dr. Oz's finances, plus a judge dismisses a request by Kenneth Chesbrough to have his guilty plea thrown out. And we discuss how Biden is |
| 0:32.2 | working to Trump-proof his legacy. President-elect Donald Trump's pick to be the top health insurance regulator in the country, |
| 0:41.6 | Dr. Mehmet Oz, has invested in companies that do business with the agency he would run. |
| 0:47.1 | I caught up with USA Today, Democracy Reporter Aaron Mansfield for more. |
| 0:51.1 | Hello, Aaron. |
| 0:52.2 | Hi, how are you? |
| 0:53.7 | Good, good. Thanks for hopping on today, Aaron. So let's |
| 0:55.7 | just start with some basics for folks who maybe are not super familiar with Dr. Oz. Who is he and what |
| 1:01.0 | has Donald Trump tapped him to do? So Dr. Oz is really best known for his television show. He's |
| 1:06.8 | kind of like Dr. Phil. He really rose to fame on Oprah's talk show, and then he got his own |
| 1:12.6 | talk show. And he actually stepped down from it in order to run for Senate in 2022. So that |
| 1:19.4 | entered him in the political arena. He lost. He got the Republican nomination in Pennsylvania for the |
| 1:25.0 | Senate, but he lost to Senator John Federman. So now Donald Trump |
| 1:30.3 | has tapped him to run what is called the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. |
| 1:35.1 | It's kind of like the government's health insurance company. They regulate Medicare, they regulate |
| 1:40.7 | Medicaid. They handle the Affordable Care Act marketplace if you buy your insurance |
| 1:46.4 | and the exchange online. It's a very important job. It can be a little bit of a nerdy job. |
| 1:52.1 | Not everyone hears about it, but almost everyone or the majority of people either interact |
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