NY Post readers discuss President-elect Donald Trump’s picks for his administration and more.
Wizard of health
President-elect Donald Trump nominated Dr. Mehmet Oz to serve as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator (“Dr. Oz will head up Medicare, Medicaid,” Nov. 20).
America is facing a health-care crisis, and there may be no physician more qualified and capable than Oz to make America healthy again. He is an eminent physician, heart surgeon, inventor and world-class communicator who has been at the forefront of healthy living for decades.
Paul Bacon, Hallandale Beach, Fla.
Overtime overkill
When I was a precinct commander, every month I received two overtime print-outs (“NYPD’S top pay $400K — at desk,” Nov. 17).
One report listed anyone who was or was soon to be retirement eligible, who earned over 20 hours of overtime for the previous month. You had to do an “exception report” explaining how the overtime was earned and what steps you were taking to curtail it.
The other overtime report listed the top 200 overtime earners, and if anyone under your command was on that list, you had to do an analysis of how the it was earned (usually via arrests) and how you were going to lower those hours.
