Dr. Oz, welcome to Podforce One.

Glad to be with you. I've been listening to you watching you.

I get to participate in person.

Fantastic. And we're here in this wonderful office in the Hubert Humphrey building, just very

close to the capital. Tell us about being here, what's it like to be in this kind of historic

place where you are now in charge of, I think, a quarter of the federal budget with Medicare

and Medicaid? Well, I'll start off by saying it's the best job I have ever had.

Really? And I've had wonderful jobs. I loved being a heart surgeon. I hung up my surgical

cleats several years ago when I ran

in public office, but I practiced my whole life. Hosting a television show was wonderful and great

friendships. I felt in both cases like I was in the change business. And in this building, I feel

more than ever that's exactly what I'm able to achieve, which is to get folks to work together to make big changes that are necessary. I don't know if you noticed as you walked into the building. You gave the name, Hubert Humphrey, but there's a quote from him, he grabbed in marble. And he speaks, I'll paraphrase, that it is the moral obligation of government to take care of those at the dawn of life, which are children, and we cover most

children in the country through Medicaid and ship, those in the twilight of life, which are the

seniors, that's Medicare, and those living hauntingly in the shadows. Folks who are struggling,

people with substance use issues, people who are depressed, people who just have fallen,

they have trouble getting up again, and the ability of any great people to take care of their most vulnerable, which is what defines a great nation.

We are great people. We're going to do that is incumbent upon us here at Medicare and Medicaid, which is why if we don't get it right, or if people take advantage of the system, which is always possible, then you're taking away

something that all of us as a nation have agreed to give folks were vulnerable, and we've got to fix

that problem.

I mean, that's exactly what's happened, is that shysters have taken advantage, crooks and

frauds, and you've now confronting that multi-billion-dollar fraud schemes seems like

organized theft. What are you actually doing about it? And why has it got so bad?

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