Dr. Oz Gets Core Tenet Of Medicaid Wrong In Fox Interview | EUROtoday

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Dr. Mehmet Oz, the present Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator, doesn’t appear to know who really depends on the packages he oversees.

In an interview with “Fox & Friends” Monday, Oz claimed this system was initially supposed solely to help younger kids, the aged and the disabled ― and that in the previous couple of years it’s been gamed by “able-bodied” individuals who “just hang out” and watch tv all day.

“When the program was created 60 years ago, it never dawned on anyone that you would take able-bodied individuals who could work ― and put them on Medicaid,” Oz claimed.

“Today, the average able-bodied person on Medicaid doesn’t work. They watch 6.1 hours of television or just hang out. That’s not fair. Go out and try to get a job.”

That’s merely not true.

According to knowledge tracked by the Kaiser Family Foundation, 92% of adults below the age of 65 who’re on Medicaid and don’t obtain further Social Security incapacity funds work full or half time, or are unable to work attributable to caregiving tasks, sickness or incapacity, or to attend faculty.

The remaining 8% of adults receiving Medicaid mentioned they had been retired, unable to seek out work or weren’t working for an additional purpose.

Oz went on to say, whereas offering no proof, that states like California are draining Medicaid coffers by permitting undocumented migrants to obtain medical care, whereas “places like Mississippi and Virginia are paying extra federal taxes to compensate for that.”

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Again, that’s simply not true. California is one in all 13 states that sends more cash to the federal authorities than it receives. Virginia and Mississippi, in the meantime, are on the other finish of the spectrum.

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