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  • 7 months ago
At Tuesday's Senate Republican leadership press briefing, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator, promoted the Big Beautiful Bill.
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00:00Well thank this thank the Senate for letting me address them today at lunch
00:06the president vice president who visited as well made some comments that were
00:10hugely beneficial to explaining the scope of this bill and I want to be very
00:14straightforward with a simple comment to start it all off with this is the most
00:18ambitious health reform bill ever in our history and it could not come at a
00:23better time we have an unstable market that is causing lots of potential peril
00:27to Americans who need our help the most the most vulnerable amongst us were the
00:32ones who will suffer the most if we don't get this bill through it is
00:35investing 200 billion dollars more money roughly over the next decade then it what
00:41is the current level of spending it is true that it's not going to go to the
00:451 trillion dollars of spending that would otherwise occur and how is it going to do
00:49it what's going to do something very important it's going to curb the growth
00:53of Medicaid which is right now it has changed 50% in its expense
00:57over the last five years by doing a few things including reduction of fraud
01:01waste and abuse an aggressive program to make sure that the right people who are
01:05eligible are truly adjudicated to be just that eligible and the work requirement is
01:11part of that equation ensuring that that what is good for the individuals
01:15what's very popular amongst the American people the idea that you should be
01:18trying to work or volunteer or get educated participate in your community in
01:24some way and by doing that demonstrate that you are trying your hardest to help
01:28this country be greater by at least trying to fill some of the jobs that we
01:31have open by doing that you earn the right to be on Medicaid these programs we
01:35believe we can roll out successfully we have two pilots already using
01:40information technology solutions an app literally on people's phones 91% of
01:45Medicaid patients have a smartphone that can use an app of this nature that
01:48would help us identify how many hours you've worked what you got paid did you try to get an
01:52education did you volunteer and do that in a seamless fashion we believe we can
01:56roll that out in 18 months we already have the head of the USDS United States
02:00Digital Service Amy Gleason creating a center of gravity at CMS to accomplish
02:04that goal so we can accomplish it within the 18 months that this bill offers
02:08there's lots more to speak about in this bill it is promising in many ways but at a
02:12summary level it builds a strong framework to allow us to do the right thing
02:17for the American people by allowing these systems to align the needs of the
02:21federal government and the president with those of governors and states by
02:24aligning the needs of the federal government and the states we can serve
02:27the American people most effectively the current system doesn't do that
02:30between state directed payments provider taxes other types of legalized money
02:35laundering we're hurting the ability of the federal government to work with
02:39states to improve the system and we know from having spoken to many of these
02:42states these are the kinds of changes that could be beneficial thank you again to
02:45Senator Thune there's the rest of the Senate attending the lunch and to the
02:48president and vice president for letting me speak today
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