Trump Cabinet members actions and issues (second term): on Health Care

Mehmet Oz: Save Medicaid despite costs rising due to tariffs

OZ: Let's use a model [for reducing drug costs in the US] that worked for external threats, that's what NATO did. Everyone has to pay a little more. We'll pay extra too. But we won't pay a lot more than everybody else, in this case to an internal threat, which is illness, we'll pay a little less in America that way more Americans can afford these medications and it's a fair system for the entire globe.

Q: At a time when costs are going up?

OZ: Costs are going up, but there's been a 50% increase in the cost of Medicaid over the last five years. So, I'm trying to save this beautiful program, this noble effort to help folks, giving them a hand up. If Medicaid isn't able to take care of the people for whom it was designed, the young children and the seniors, then we're not satisfying the fundamental obligation of a moral government.

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