Over the weekend, Dr. Mehmet Oz — now leading the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services — offered a fuller picture of President Trump’s plans to overhaul and repair Obamacare.
In a Sunday exchange with Fox News’ Peter Doocy, Oz sketched a vision built around wider choice, lower drug costs, and real access for the small businesses so often left out of the system.
“People will decide which doctors they want to keep. They’ll pay for the programs they think are most valuable to them,” Oz told Doocy — a simple sentence carrying the promise of a more personal kind of healthcare.
He argued that savings already embedded in the ACA could be unlocked.
“We can save enough money in the ACA as it’s currently structured if we adjust where the money’s invested and drive prices down… to actually give people some money back, and we want that.”
But Oz said the deeper work lies ahead: bringing people “off the sidelines,” especially the small employers priced out of traditional insurance but able to manage an ACA plan. “Empower them, put some of the money in their hands, let them buy the policy that suits their needs,” he continued.
He also pointed to the administration’s focus on GLP-1 medications and Trump’s push to make them cheaper and more widely available.
“We’re gonna be able to get Americans to lose about 125 million pounds over the next year by dropping the price of these weight loss drugs that are very effective,” Oz said. “They’re not a cure for obesity, but they help you get back to your fighting weight.”
And then the broader horizon — the health gains that ripple outward. “The value to that of the U.S. economy, the health economy, is massive because you will actually pay for these drugs with just the savings from reducing heart attacks and kidney failure and dementia and all the things like hypertension and diabetes that cause those problems.”
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President Trump said Sunday he’s been in direct talks with Democrats about a new health care payment plan as negotiations ramp up to address soaring insurance premiums.
“I’ve had personal talks with some Democrats,” Trump told reporters in West Palm Beach before heading back to Washington.
The president did not name the Democrats he said has been speaking to, but said he has talked to them “about paying large amounts of dollars back to the people.”
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Trump says he might have enough Democrats to get his vouchers for Healthcare passed
Giving the subsidies directly to the American people and let them negotiate directly to increase competition, thus lowering the costs
Obamacare was nothing but a big lie from the beginning pic.twitter.com/4JBmnETOtq
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