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Mehmet Oz: “We're putting 200 billion more dollars into Medicaid.”

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

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Dr. Mehmet Oz on drug prices and Medicaid changes in Trump's new tax law

Published | Video Starts at 02:02

And do you know, you know, if the companies are actually going to follow through on this? Like, how do you actually strong arm them into doing it? We'll just get the numbers correct. We're putting 200 billion more dollars into Medicaid. So we're actually investing in Medicaid. Costs are going up, costs are going up. But there's been a 50% increase in the cost of Medicaid over the last five years. (02:02–02:06)

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Asserts that $200 billion is being added to Medicaid funding.

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