Return to Oz

Return to Oz

From Medicare for All by Benjamin Day and Gillian Mason - Healthcare-NOW

April 1, 2025 · 42 min

About this episode

The episode discusses the implications of Doctor Oz's nomination for Director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services with Dr. Diljeet Singh.

For this episode, we’re going back to a familiar villain from podcast-past because  unfortunately, healthcare villains have a habit of staying relevant. This is a guy who made his fame by cozying up to Oprah while schilling diet pills, supplements, and medical conspiracy theories – it’s Doctor Oz, who is now Trump’s nominee for Director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. That’s right, the man who has previously claimed that there are deadly levels of arsenic in apple juice, that most olive oil is fake, that “Reparative Therapy” can cure homosexuality, and that hydroxychloroquine cures COVID, is pretty close to running our largest public health systems. Today I’m talking with Dr. Diljeet Singh of Physicians for a National Health program about what that means for you and the country at large, and how we can do something about it!  NOTE: At the Medicare for All Podcast, we’ve had a brief, unplanned hiatus due to pesky technical issues – and the fact that Trump is keeping us busy in our organizing work – but we are very excited to be back! I’m flying solo right now while my regular cohost Ben is saving the environment at his 9 to 5 organizing job, but that…

People in this episode

Host: Ben

Guest: Dr Diljeet Singh

Topics covered

  • healthcare
  • politics
  • public health
  • Medicare
  • Trump administration

Keywords

  • Doctor Oz
  • healthcare villains
  • Medicare and Medicaid Services
  • public health systems

Mentioned in this episode

Products: diet pills, supplements

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