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Mehmet Oz: “Medicare Advantage plans, which cover 34 million Americans…”

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

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Brooke Rollins, RFK Jr. & Dr. Oz announce initiative to Make America Healthy Again

Published | Video Starts at 13:33

And they get points, they get bonuses if they have these conversations teaching about healthy food. But it's even more provocative, I believe now is we have the ability to incentivize plans like Medicare Advantage plans, which cover 34 million Americans, to provide in the supplemental benefits that they give for chronically ill patients, which is now 34% of all beneficiaries. That's a doubling since last year. But they can't just give any food. They must give food that is nutritiously valuable to these chronic illnesses for the third of Americans who get them. (13:33–13:44)

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Asserts that Medicare Advantage plans cover 34 million Americans and 34% of beneficiaries are chronically ill.

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