Dr. Mehmet Oz

The most important message is don't think about health care like an expense.

Think of it as an investment.

Because if I can get the average American to work one year longer because I got the medication at a better price, they didn't turn away at the drugstore or because we were able to do something else.

Correct.

Morbilities.

Whatever.

Missing the movement.

We'll talk about all this.

But if you can get the average American to work one year longer, that is worth three trillion dollars to the U.S.

economy.

It's massive.

So we need to get people feeling their best, feeling that they have agency over their future, with confidence that they're going to make a difference in the world.

So they want to keep trying to do it at the workplace.

And that extra one year, which gets them closer to Medicare, by the way, also helps deal with other financial crises that we're facing as a nation.

So this is the way to think about it the right way.

Get the actual cost of care down.

Don't just pay more money into the system.

Get the actual cost of care down so the money we're spending gets us more value.

Precisely stated, yes.

I want everyone to have access to health care.