Dr. Oz has extolled Ozempic’s promise for weight-loss. Now Medicare, which Trump wants Oz to oversee, may cover it.

Mehmet Oz, a celebrity heart surgeon turned talk show host and lifestyle guru, is President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the massive federal health care bureaucracy that covers more than a third of

The celebrity physician would run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a powerful agency in charge of programs that cover more than 150 million Americans.

Mehmet Oz’s conflicts of interest may jeopardize the federal budget if approved as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator. Health reporter Lauren Weber explains.

Trump’s pick to run Medicare and Medicaid is involved with a number of businesses that are involved with both.