Dr. Mehmet Oz

For NPR News, I'm Lydia McFarlane in Scranton.

We believe, listen carefully, we are spending $300 billion a year in health care in this country for fraudulent, abusive, or wasteful purposes.

$300 billion.

Let's put that in perspective.

If we could reduce fraud by 5%, which is that $300 billion, we would take the trust fund that's going to take care of all of us as we get older, and we would allow it not to expire in five to six years.

We would double its life expectancy.

That's massively important if you're going to trust the social safety net to be there for you.

You deserve that social safety net.

It's there.

It's created.

We're not going to let fraudsters steal it from you.

The Stellar CS team, I want to call them out.

Kim Brandt, who's videoing me over there.

Dan Brillman, Capri Snap, Steph Carlton have worked tirelessly to put this together.

They've been rooting out criminals all year long.

I know as well what it's like.

I've visited all these areas, personally witnessed what it's like to see something you know is wrong.

and wonder why no one tried to fix it.

It's infuriating.

The Vice President described very accurately exactly what you see on the ground.