Must watch opening statement from Dr. Oz for his CMS nomination:
“I believe that a physician has a responsibility to tell patients what they need to know even if the message is uncomfortable.”
“Here's some painful truths that should concern everyone in this room.”
“Health care expenditures are growing 2%-3% faster than our economy.”
“The Medicare trust fund will be insolvent within a decade.”
“Our health care cost per person in this country is twice that of other developed nations.”
“43% of Americans are obese, that's quadrupled since I was in college.”
“We're twice as obese as Europeans. We're nine times as obese as the Japanese.”
“3/4 of our young people cannot even qualify for military service.”
“Our maternal mortality rate, is dead last place behind 50 other countries.”
“These are some of the reasons why our life expectancy is now five years shorter than comparable countries.”
“This public health crisis threatens our national security.”
“The most expensive care we give is bad care. You pay to do the wrong thing. You pay to fix what was done wrong, then you pay to deal with all the complications.”
“We have a generational opportunity to fix our health care system and help people stay healthy for longer.”
h/t End Tribalism on X
EMILY NOTE: “Our maternal mortality rate, is dead last place behind 50 other countries.”
Does he mean dead first? That would have been a good, but ghoulish, turn-of-phrase.
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