Dr. Mehmet Oz
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And some of them are complicit.
But I think fundamentally there was a misalignment of values.
And this actually was probably the most important thing we had to do in that legislation last year, the Working Families Tax Cut legislation.
We had to align the president with the governors.
There were so many ways of getting the federal government to give you money that wasn't really yours, legalized money laundering schemes, all kinds of things that clever consultants had figured out over the years that we estimated we would have lost $5.4 trillion just for Medicaid, which is, again, why I often joke we were becoming one massive health care system with a small country attached.
It doesn't work long term.
If we don't take bold action, which, again, a major message on a lot of things the president is doing, if you don't take bold action on some of these issues, you're leaving our
the next generation with a train wreck.
They can't fix it anymore because the train's gone way off the rails.
But it doesn't hurt California.
This is the part of the story that's so infuriating.
You don't audit the books in California because the federal government is paying anyway.
So why would I audit the books to find out that my people aren't getting free money from the federal government?
Let's talk about illegal immigrants.
So Gavin Newsom was giving us a hard time for threatening the health insurance of illegal immigrants, just to be very transparent.
If you're on Medicare, you don't get free dental.
You don't get free vision.
You do if you're an illegal immigrant in California.
Anyway, so you've got taxpayers in New Mexico.
Right.