{"id":280475,"date":"2026-02-12T13:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T13:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/280475\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T13:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T13:01:12","slug":"time100-health-mehmet-oz-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/280475\/","title":{"rendered":"TIME100 Health: Mehmet Oz | TIME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rich-text self-baseline font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mb-0 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\" data-testid=\"paragraph-content\">Since becoming head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which covers health care services for about 140 million Americans, Dr. Mehmet Oz has brought the prevention-focused mindset that made his television show popular to the federal health program. Oz tells TIME he hopes to \u201cpush primary care into a leadership position\u201d to catch more maladies before patients end up in the emergency room. At the same time, he&#8217;s modernizing the health care system by introducing more accessible and user-friendly health records that would give patients more control over their health information. He\u2019s also taking aim at what he says is waste and fraud in the department, with a controversial goal of reducing federal <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7298772\/medicaid-big-beautiful-bill-health-insurance\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Medicaid<\/a> funding by roughly $1 trillion over the next decade and enforcing stricter employment verification requirements. Other government agencies predict that <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7305670\/trumps-medicaid-cuts-americans-disabilities\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">millions will be left<\/a> with less or no coverage in coming years. Oz says the cuts are necessary to ensure coverage \u201cfor people who are most vulnerable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since becoming head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which covers health care services for about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[54805,13687,134,527,10005,4974,111,139,69,54807,16498,156689],"class_list":{"0":"post-280475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-accolades","9":"tag-franchise","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-healthcare","12":"tag-list","13":"tag-magazine","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-special-project","18":"tag-sponsorshipblock","19":"tag-time100-health-2026"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}