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Mehmet Oz: “We're talking about $100 billion a day, including…”

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

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HHS Secretary RFK Jr., CMS Administrator Dr. Oz Announce New Mental Health Initiative

Published | Video Starts at 39:37

The impact of substance use, which is often what you turn to if you can't get other connection in your life, and is worsened dramatically by loneliness. You know, these are, if you count lost workdays and elect, We're talking about $100 billion a day, including incarceration, maybe 150 billion, not a day, a year. So these are major costs that we are absorbing because we're not taking a crisis, an emotional crisis on Headfirst. And again, I point out the fact it's going to be multifaceted. (39:37–39:43)

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Asserts that costs related to emotional crises, including incarceration, amount to $100-150 billion a year.

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