Dr. Mehmet Oz
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Every Medicaid patient gets it for nothing.
So the people who need it the most, the folks that are most vulnerable.
When people say the president doesn't want to protect Medicaid, he doesn't love and cherish Medicare, it drives me bonkers.
Because he's doing more for underserved Americans than any other president ever has.
Giving Americans where the obesity epidemic lives, underserved Americans, vulnerable Americans who are on Medicaid, access to these drugs for no out-of-pocket costs, truly democratizes the weight loss issues.
Because right now, what's the number one zip code for weight loss?
Drugs.
Number one zip code.
Upper East Side of Manhattan.
I was about to say, it's got to be Manhattan or L.A.?
L.A.
's number two.
Okay.
Because they're vain.
They're vain.
They want to lose two pounds for their daughter's wedding, and they can afford it.
$1,200 is a rounding error.
Right?
But $1,200 for someone that's not making money, you're just not going to take the drug.
And they're the ones that die early.