Dr. Mehmet Oz
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Dramatically, people in the government.
This is probably the part that's most rewarding to me.
Many government workers are Democrats, probably most.
What they tell me again and again is they just came to government to do their job.
And they were told not to do their job.
They were told not to focus on the fraud, to focus on getting more people signed up.
But if you don't take care of the fraud, this is an important message, you will kill the system.
Eventually, you will destroy Medicaid.
And I'm not going to let that happen on our watch.
Medicaid, as Hubert Humphrey said, is there to protect those at the dawn of life, which are our children.
53% of kids are born into poverty.
We take care of them.
Those at the twilight of life, those are the seniors, right?
We owe it to them.
Every great society takes care of the most vulnerable.
We're great.
People will do that.
And he Hubert Humphrey said, you got to take care of those living in the shadows.
We are not going to let them get hurt.
When you let organized criminal elements steal at scale from the federal government, you are killing those programs.