Dr. Oz touts investment in Medicaid: 'I'm trying to save this beautiful program'

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz says the Trump administration plans to invest more than $200 billion "more dollars" into Medicaid following the passage of the "One Big Beautiful Bill." 

"I'm trying to save this beautiful program, this noble effort, to help folks, giving them a hand up," Oz told CBS' "Face the Nation" on Sunday.

"And as you probably gather, if Medicaid isn't able to take care of the people for whom it was designed, the young children, the dawn of their life, those who are twilight of their lives, the seniors, and those who were disabled living in the shadows, as Hubert Humphrey said, then we're not satisfying the fundamental obligation of a moral government," he continued. 

Oz, the 17th administrator for CMS, said the government wants "an appropriate return" on the Medicaid investment. He addressed the difference in drug costs between the U.S. and Europe, adding that work is being done by the administrati...