Dr. Mehmet Oz
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Whatever.
Missing the movement.
We'll talk about all this.
But if you can get the average American to work one year longer, that is worth three trillion dollars to the U.S.
economy.
It's massive.
So we need to get people feeling their best, feeling that they have agency over their future, with confidence that they're going to make a difference in the world.
So they want to keep trying to do it at the workplace.
And that extra one year, which gets them closer to Medicare, by the way, also helps deal with other financial crises that we're facing as a nation.
So this is the way to think about it the right way.
Get the actual cost of care down.
Don't just pay more money into the system.
Get the actual cost of care down so the money we're spending gets us more value.
Precisely stated, yes.
I want everyone to have access to health care.
But how we pay for it is the defining issue here.
How do you keep the system incentivized to take care of you?
If I tell everybody,
in America that you have healthcare, and then I tell the doctors, give them healthcare, but they don't deal with the financial costs, then you all of a sudden start to restrict the access to care.
So you can get the healthcare, like you do in socialized medicine countries, you just have to wait six months or a year or longer, or you don't get the care at all.