Fox’s John Roberts Makes Dr. Oz Watch Clip of Top Democrat Saying ‘He’s a Joke’ and ‘Woefully Unqualified’

Dr. Mehmet Oz, the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, was forced to watch House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) savage him as “unqualified” and a “joke” while on Fox News.

Oz, who was endorsed by President Donald Trump in his ill-fated 2022 U.S. Senate bid, appeared on Tuesday’s America Reports amid a pledge from Trump that Republicans will soon unveil a healthcare plan. The television doctor declined to elaborate on the alleged plan during an interview on Fox Business on Monday, and again during America Reports on Tuesday.

Trump has been promising to roll out a healthcare plan since 2015, but it has yet to materialize.

“The minority leader in the House, Hakeem Jeffries, took an opportunity yesterday to say some rather unkind things about you,” Roberts told Oz before airing a clip of Jeffries railing against him:

Nobody who’s serious in this country takes Dr. Oz seriously. No one. And, I mean, it’s shocking that the guy even was confirmed…

I’m not gonna respond to any comments from randos like Dr. Oz, who’s unqualified to be in whatever position he holds in the administration. He’s a joke.

Roberts responded to the clip by saying he has known Oz for “about 30 years,” stating, “And I put together this little collection of potential qualifications that you have.” He then rattled off Oz’s Ivy League credentials and some of his jobs, which included cardiothoracic surgeon and professor at Columbia University.

Omitted from the list was Oz’s history of pushing pseudoscience, including advocacy of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for Covid-19.

“Well, Hakeem Jeffries panicked,” Oz told Roberts. “So he tried to attack the messenger with an ad hominem approach. But that’s not how you deal with the challenges that 24 million people are facing now because the Democratic Party has not been able to put forward a program that could work.”

Oz’s comments come about six weeks before most recipients of healthcare under the Affordable Care Act are set to see their out-of-pocket premium costs double, on average, at the end of the year. Congressional Democrats unsuccessfully sought an extension of a Covid-era legislative provision that gave premium subsidies to ACA beneficiaries, as Republicans refused to include the extension in the most recent Senate spending bill.

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