Mehmet Oz Reveals The Real Dystopian Goal Behind Trump's Health Care Plan
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The former TV personality known as Dr. Oz said the plan is to keep Americans healthy enough to work one additional year before retirement.
More than 100 years ago, President Calvin Coolidge famously said, “The chief business of the American people is business.” That motto seems to be the philosophy behind the Trump administration’s recently released Great Healthcare Plan.
And based on the way Mehmet Oz, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, described the plan’s goals to Fox News on Wednesday, it sounds pretty dang dystopian.
Most people might assume a good health care plan should hope to help citizens stay healthy so they can pursue, as the Declaration of Independence puts it, “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
But the former TV doctor, widely known as Dr. Oz, suggested to Maria Bartiromo that the president’s plan is designed so American businesses can basically suck every last bit of effort out of workers before they punch that final time card.
“If we can get the average person ... to work one more year in their whole lifetime — just stay in your workplace for one more year — that is worth about $3 trillion to the U.S. GDP. That’s the productivity we would unleash. ... If you’re sick, you can’t work,” Oz explained.
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