Dr. Mehmet Oz: Big Beautiful Bill Is The 'Most Ambitious Health Reform Bill Ever In Our History'

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At Tuesday's Senate Republican leadership press briefing, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator, promoted the Big Beautiful Bill.

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00:00Well thank this thank the Senate for letting me address them today at lunch

00:06the president vice president who visited as well made some comments that were

00:10hugely beneficial to explaining the scope of this bill and I want to be very

00:14straightforward with a simple comment to start it all off with this is the most

00:18ambitious health reform bill ever in our history and it could not come at a

00:23better time we have an unstable market that is causing lots of potential peril

00:27to Americans who need our help the most the most vulnerable amongst us were the

00:32ones who will suffer the most if we don't get this bill through it is

00:35investing 200 billion dollars more money roughly over the next decade then it what

00:41is the current level of spending it is true that it's not going to go to the

00:451 trillion dollars of spending that would otherwise occur and how is it going to do

00:49it what's going to do something very important it's going to curb the growth

00:53of Medicaid which is right now it has changed 50% in its expense

00:57over the last five years by doing a few things including reduction of fraud

01:01waste and abuse an aggressive program to make sure that the right people who are

01:05eligible are truly adjudicated to be just that eligible and the work requirement is

01:11part of that equation ensuring that that what is good for the individuals

01:15what's very popular amongst the American people the idea that you should be

01:18trying to work or volunteer or get educated participate in your community in

01:24some way and by doing that demonstrate that you are trying your hardest to help

01:28this country be greater by at least trying to fill some of the jobs that we

01:31have open by doing that you earn the right to be on Medicaid these programs we

01:35believe we can roll out successfully we have two pilots already using

01:40information technology solutions an app literally on people's phones 91% of

01:45Medicaid patients have a smartphone that can use an app of this nature that

01:48would help us identify how many hours you've worked what you got paid did you try to get an

01:52education did you volunteer and do that in a seamless fashion we believe we can

01:56roll that out in 18 months we already have the head of the USDS United States

02:00Digital Service Amy Gleason creating a center of gravity at CMS to accomplish

02:04that goal so we can accomplish it within the 18 months that this bill offers

02:08there's lots more to speak about in this bill it is promising in many ways but at a

02:12summary level it builds a strong framework to allow us to do the right thing

02:17for the American people by allowing these systems to align the needs of the

02:21federal government and the president with those of governors and states by

02:24aligning the needs of the federal government and the states we can serve

02:27the American people most effectively the current system doesn't do that

02:30between state directed payments provider taxes other types of legalized money

02:35laundering we're hurting the ability of the federal government to work with

02:39states to improve the system and we know from having spoken to many of these

02:42states these are the kinds of changes that could be beneficial thank you again to

02:45Senator Thune there's the rest of the Senate attending the lunch and to the

02:48president and vice president for letting me speak today

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