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Mehmet Oz: “Governors are really becoming desperate about the cost of…”

Featuring: Mehmet Oz, Republican | Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services | National

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Dr. Oz discusses running Medicare and Medicaid

Published | Video Starts at 01:28

Well, the good thing about the president, he knows how to make a deal. And the art of the deal here is pretty straightforward. Governors are really becoming desperate about the cost of Medicaid. It's stripping away their ability to provide resources for education, other social services, to take care of their people. And we're becoming one massive health care system with a government attached, a country attached, and we don't want that. (01:28–01:33)

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