Dr. Oz is an odd fit to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Dr. Mehmet Oz is being nominated to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services .

Frida Ghitis: Oz's lack of experience as a manager and experience with policy make him odd match to lead Medicare .

She says he's wrong to suggest that we can all keep ourselves healthy through hard work, not pseudoscience.

Ghitis says Oz should be careful to avoid overpromoting dubious “miracle cures”.

“It’s often only when someone is fighting an illness that the downsides of Medicare privatization become obvious,” writes Helaine Olen . To put it another way: It’s fun to lie on your couch and play doctor—until you’re truly sick..