Instead of moving people from Medicaid, the so -called “vast, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, Bill” – Now the law -” will introduce more people to the labor force “, argued Mehmet Oz, the Administrator of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
In a brief interview During the Friday visit to the Atlanticare Regional Medical Center in Atlantic City, Oz counted the critics that the newly received regulations would deprive Medicaid residents of low income.
“My main goal is to make sure that we do not have people accidentally pushing the system,” said Oz, the author, a former surgeon and television personality, whose promotion of advice and health products was criticized as poorly informed and risky.
Known to the Millions as “Dr. Oz”, he lost the election in the US Senate in 2022 in Pennsylvania with Democrat John Fetterman in his first trip to politics.
Now, as a federal administrator, OZ has repeated the conservative conversation point that Medicaid is currently weakened by “waste, fraud and abuse” A claim questioned by political experts.
Impartially Congress Budget Office Excused in June that changes in Medicaid based on regulations would cause that about 8 million people would be removed from Medicaid Rolls.
Oz did not take care of this character directly on Friday, saying that instead of this up-to-date federal recipes will motivate people to return to their labor, and not punish them.
“If you are functional and you are able to work, and you are not, on average, you spend 6.1 hours a day watching TV or just spending time … so we say that you should try to go to work,” said Oz.
However, from the undisputed adults under 65, who rely on Medicaid, 92% Either they work, look after a family member, managing diseases or disability, or attending school, according to KFF, the National Organization Non -Profit focusing on health issues previously known as Kaiser Family Foundation.
“The blow over our heads with an idea is a raging fraud, it is a dispersion of attention and simply a way to justify cuts for a desperate program,” said Judith Levine, director of the Public Policy Laboratory of the Temple University University.
In an interview, OZ emphasized that he believes that Medicaid pursued his original goal, which he set former vice president Hubert Humphrey, a liberal supporter of government programs that support people in poverty.
Oz quoted Humphrey, saying: “The moral test of the government is that this government treats those who are in the dawn of life, children; those who are in life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadow of life, the sick, the needy and the disabled.”
After an interview, OZ participated in private discussions of the Round Table with South Jersey politicians and healthcare employees.
