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The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

Hour 3 - Made in the USA

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

iHeartPodcasts

Politics, Daily News, Society & Culture, News Commentary, News

4.311.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Hour 3 of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show delivers a dynamic and wide-ranging discussion centered on healthcare reform, fraud prevention, and political commentary, featuring a high-profile interview with CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz and FTC Commissioner Melissa Holyoak.

Dr. Oz, now serving as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under the Trump administration, outlines the administration’s ambitious healthcare agenda. He addresses the skyrocketing cost of healthcare in America, the chronic disease epidemic, and the mental health crisis, emphasizing the role of loneliness as a key driver of poor health outcomes. Dr. Oz also highlights a recent White House event where major tech and healthcare companies pledged to return control of medical records to patients and modernize healthcare through digital innovation.

A major focus is the “big beautiful bill” that introduced work requirements for Medicaid recipients, aiming to restore dignity and autonomy to able-bodied Americans while preserving the program’s integrity. Dr. Oz defends the policy as a moral and economic imperative, drawing parallels to President Clinton’s welfare reform.

The conversation shifts to prescription drug pricing, where Dr. Oz announces a new “most favored nation” pricing policy to combat global freeloading and reduce U.S. drug costs. He compares this initiative to NATO’s cost-sharing model, asserting that America should no longer bear the financial burden of global pharmaceutical R&D alone.

Technology’s transformative role in healthcare is another key theme. Dr. Oz discusses how AI, robotics, and automation will streamline care, reduce administrative waste, and combat fraud—highlighting a recent $15 billion DOJ takedown of a multinational criminal network exploiting Medicare.

Later in the hour, FTC Commissioner Melissa Holyoak joins the show to discuss the agency’s efforts to protect consumers from sophisticated scams, including AI-driven voice cloning fraud. She outlines the FTC’s enforcement mechanisms, collaboration with the DOJ, and focus on anti-competitive mergers in the fast-evolving tech sector. Holyoak also promotes the FTC’s “Made in USA” labeling enforcement, encouraging businesses and consumers to report violations.

The hour also features listener talkbacks, humorous banter about strip clubs and churches in Nashville, and a lighthearted segment on Clay’s baby boy “Speed”, whose name has historical ties to Abraham Lincoln’s Attorney General. The hosts also touch on Kamala Harris’s political future, Nancy Pelosi’s insider trading allegations, and Bill Belichick’s new role at UNC, speculating on the media buzz surrounding his 24-year-old girlfriend.

 

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:04.4

Welcome back in Clay Travis, Buck Sexton Show.

0:07.6

Appreciate all of you hanging out with us.

0:09.6

We are rolling through the Thursday edition of the program.

0:12.6

I encourage you to go subscribe to the podcast.

0:15.2

You can also find us on YouTube as we are rapidly approaching 100,000 subscribers there and hopefully in the near future

0:23.1

we'll be able to put all three hours of the program up on YouTube as well so all of you

0:30.2

can consume as much of this as you would like not only on video but audio as well 97,000

0:37.0

subscribers by the way.

0:38.2

Knock us over 100, if you would.

0:40.5

We are joined now by Dr. Oz, who does a fabulous job inside of the Trump administration,

0:48.2

working on so many different issues out there.

0:51.6

He is the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services

0:55.3

and working to make health technology great again. There's a lot going on when it comes to

1:03.2

the cost of health care for sure. Dr. Oz, you've been dealing with it for your entire life. Are you optimistic about

1:12.9

changes that you guys are going to be able to implement inside of the Trump administration?

1:18.2

Part one and part two, what should we expect to see? Thanks for coming on with us.

1:23.2

God bless you. I am optimistic. As a doctor often has to, there's some bad news. I should get

1:29.5

out of the way first, then we move to the growth. But we are spending twice as much per capita

1:33.8

as any other country in the planet on our people. Our life expectancy despite that investment

1:38.7

is now five years shorter than Europe. We're sicker. It's one of the reasons that we don't live as long and that we

1:44.9

do have to pay more because of our chronic illness. This is why the Maha movement has gained

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