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Mehmet Oz: “We asked investigators and we upgraded the team doing this…”

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

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Dr. Mehmet Oz on state of U.S. health care amid government shutdown

Published | Video Starts at 01:14

And we decided to go an extra step and I want to announce that data here today with you. We asked investigators and we upgraded the team doing this. We sent them out and said find out how many people were actually getting Medicaid funding who were illegal immigrants, who are undocumented, weren't supposed to be here. Now we were told that this wasn't happening. It turns out the number. You ready for this major $1.2 billion already in just the last few months were spent by … (01:14–01:27)

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Asserts that investigators were tasked with finding illegal immigrants receiving Medicaid funding.

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