{"id":1052187,"date":"2025-03-24T17:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T21:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1052187"},"modified":"2025-03-24T17:18:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T21:18:12","slug":"icymi-dr-ozs-conflicts-of-interest-could-enrich-him-at-the-expense-of-millions-of-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-dr-ozs-conflicts-of-interest-could-enrich-him-at-the-expense-of-millions-of-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Dr. Oz\u2019s Conflicts of Interest Could Enrich Him at the Expense of Millions of Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"449\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1050776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png 1101w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=300,132 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=768,337 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=1024,449 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Point:<\/strong> \u201cMehmet Oz, the nominee to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, co-founded health benefits company ZorroRX with his son last year, according to now-hidden source code \u2026 Ethics experts, lawyers and health care analysts say his ties to a health benefits company that could profit off the federal drug program entangle him in a potential conflict of interest.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2025\/03\/24\/dr-oz-health-benefits-company-zorrorx\/\"><strong>Washington Post<\/strong><\/a><strong>: Health benefits company co-founded by Dr. Oz could be a conflict of interest<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Lauren Weber and Caitlin Gilbert<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Mehmet Oz, the nominee to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, co-founded health benefits company ZorroRX with his son last year, according to now-hidden source code <\/strong><strong>and a blog post on the company\u2019s website.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>[A]s use of the government drug pricing program has exploded, <strong>health care analysts say the unregulated system has driven up health care costs and is failing to help vulnerable patients, all while allowing companies such as ZorroRX to thrive.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>As head of CMS, Oz would lead an agency that could directly influence how much money hospitals \u2014 and in turn companies like ZorroRX \u2014 make from the federal system. <strong>Ethics experts, lawyers and health care analysts say his ties to a health benefits company that could profit off the federal drug program entangle him in a potential conflict of interest.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cBecause of his son\u2019s affiliation with this entity, you wouldn\u2019t want hospitals to be relying on the name of Mehmet Oz or his son to think somehow they wouldn\u2019t be held accountable by Oz,\u201d said Virginia Canter, chief counsel for State Democracy Defenders Fund, a watchdog group. <strong>\u201cI\u2019m concerned about the use of public office for private gain.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Oz did not disclose his involvement with ZorroRX in his financial forms submitted to the Office of Government Ethics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Point: \u201cMehmet Oz, the nominee to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, co-founded health benefits company ZorroRX with his son last year, according to now-hidden source code \u2026 Ethics experts, lawyers and health care analysts say his ties to a health benefits company that could profit off the federal drug program entangle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":293,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1052187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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