TAMPA, Fla. (The Hill) – Mehmet Oz, the celebrity doctor who oversees Medicaid and Medicare for the Trump administration, on Wednesday threw his support behind Florida's effort to end mandatory vaccinations in schools.

In an interview on “The Story with Martha MacCallum,” the Fox News host asked Oz whether he agrees with officials who want to make Florida the first state in the nation to end childhood vaccine requirements and whether Oz would “recommend the same thing to your patients.”

“I would definitely not have mandates for vaccinations,” the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator told MacCallum.

“This is a decision that a physician and a patient should be making together,” he continued. “The parents love their kids more than anybody else could love that kid,

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