The Trump administration is putting $200 billion into Medicaid in hopes of saving the “beautiful program,” Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said Sunday.
“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,” Oz said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
“If Medicaid isn’t able to take care of the people for whom it was designed, the young children, in the dawn of their life, those who are in the twilight of their life, the seniors and those who are disabled living in the shadows, as Hubert Humphrey said, then we’re not satisfying the fundamental obligation of a moral government.”
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