President Donald Trump signed the spending bill into law earlier this month. It enforced work requirements for able-bodied Medicaid recipients who don’t have children.
Oz said on Fox News’s Fox and Friends on Monday that Medicaid wasn’t always meant for “able-bodied individuals.” Instead, Oz paraphrased Vice President Hubert Humphrey to say the government’s role is to help those “at the dawn of their life, the children; those at the twilight of their life, the elderly; and those living in the shadows, folks with handicaps.”
This quote is so vital to the Health and Human Services Department’s purpose that it is on a wall inside its headquarters.
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“We have to keep it viable,” Oz said of Medicaid. “And what happened over the last few years is
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