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Mehmet Oz: “The fraud, for example, that I'm talking about, the use of…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 24:39

So if we as a country decide, we're going to go in one direction. You can't have states splintering off if they're going to spend the other people's money. The fraud, for example, that I'm talking about, the use of money for illegal immigrants, the people who pay that bill, when it, for example, the largesse of California allows folks to get benefits that the rest of the country doesn't think is appropriate for illegal immigrants or home health care providers, that money is paid by folks who are taxpayers in New Mexico, which is a blue state, and Mississippi a red state. So this is not partisan. Everybody is taxed extra and has to put more into the kitty because some states are doing things that we don't think as a country we would like to have happen. (24:39–25:00)

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Asserts that taxpayers in other states pay for benefits provided to illegal immigrants in California.

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