
Dr. Oz touts investment in Medicaid: 'I'm trying to save this beautiful program'
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Dr. Mehmet Oz reveals $200 billion Medicaid investment and new health data sharing system as CMS administrator under Trump administration.
"And as you probably gather, if Medicaid isn't able to take care of the people for whom it was designed, the young children, the dawn of their life, those who are twilight of their lives, the seniors, and those who were disabled living in the shadows, as Hubert Humphrey said, then we're not satisfying the fundamental obligation of a moral government," he continued.
Oz, the 17th administrator for CMS, said the government wants "an appropriate return" on the Medicaid investment. He addressed the difference in drug costs between the U.S. and Europe, adding that work is being done by the administration in an attempt to bring drug prices down.