Qualifications: A physician and ex-daytime talk show personality who gained fame and controversy on the Oprah show, Dr. Oz lost a 2022 Senate race.

Disqualifications: Oz is widely critiqued by medical peers for promoting pseudoscience and alternative medicine theories, some branded quackery.

Views: He will be in charge of Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the Affordable Care Act health insurance marketplace. Oz supports repealing the ACA and favors the  private insurance supplemental Medicare Advantage Plus program. Oz is the sons of Turkish émigrés and a Muslim and believes in Islamic Sufism, a faith practice that promotes a direct relationship with God.