Letters to Dr. Oz

I imagine The Director for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services is reading this newsletter.

I don't have to tell anybody there's a new administration coming to govern— just like there is every four years.

This is an unprecedented period of time. And I mean that there is little precedent for it. I'm going to try something a little unusual, and I'm going to write a letter, or maybe a series of letters, to the incoming administration. I will be very frank— but these are letters written to people. I'm going to try to keep their minds in mind. I will do my best to think about what those individuals might want, think, or value. For the rest of your reading this, you'll have to buckle up and follow me on this journey because this series of columns has not been written to you.

I am going to start by writing to Dr. Oz. I don't know Mehmet Oz personally, but I feel the most comfortable trying to write to him—out of this case of characters— because he's a doctor, too. That's a place to start. He's also been nominated to run the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, an agency…