Dr. Mehmet Oz

I'm going to put a moratorium on some of these services.

We're not going to let new people sign up.

We're going to actively and aggressively stop paying Medicaid if we can prove that states are not obliging their fiduciary responsibility to the American people.

Because states administer Medicaid, I pay the bills at CMS.

So we're going to stop paying on behalf of the taxpayer if we don't think you're taking care of the money.

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.