President Trump’s announcement that he had selected Dr. Oz to run Medicaid and Medicare included a line that hinted at cuts to the programs.
President Trump announced:
Here’s the key part of the announcement: “He will also reduce waste and fraud within our nation’s most expensive government agency, which accounts for a third of our health care costs and a quarter of our national budget.” Dew”.
Since the election, there has been speculation that Trump would do this. It seeks to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations by cutting Medicaid and increasing the number of vulnerable, uninsured people with serious medical conditions in the country.
Dr. Oz is a failed Senate candidate and is unqualified in every way to run Medicare and Medicaid. The press release announcing Oz’s nominations called Oz’s Daytime Emmy Awards as if winning an award on television was a qualification for running two of the most important medical programs in the country. It is said that he received the award.
Reducing funding for Medicare and Medicare would require legislation from Congress, but such cuts in Congress have had a significant impact due to the overwhelming public pressure that comes into play whenever cuts to the program are debated. There is.
President Trump is seeking to redistribute the nation’s wealth upwards, and has focused on Medicare and Medicaid to help pay for it.
