Greater than 100 years in the past, President Calvin Coolidge famously mentioned, “The chief enterprise of the American folks is enterprise.” That motto appears to be the philosophy behind the Trump administration’s not too long ago launched Great Healthcare Plan.
And based mostly on the best way Mehmet Oz, the administrator for the Facilities for Medicare & Medicaid Providers, described the plan’s objectives to Fox Information on Wednesday, it sounds fairly dang dystopian.
Most individuals would possibly assume a very good well being care plan ought to hope to assist residents keep wholesome to allow them to pursue, because the Declaration of Independence places it, “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
However the former TV doctor, broadly often known as Dr. Oz, advised to Maria Bartiromo that the president’s plan is designed so American companies can mainly suck each final little bit of effort out of staff earlier than they punch that remaining time card.
“If we are able to get the common particular person … to work another yr of their complete lifetime — simply keep in your office for another yr — that’s value about $3 trillion to the U.S. GDP. That’s the productiveness we’d unleash. … If you happen to’re sick, you may’t work,” Oz defined.
Contemplating Trump’s well being care plan is already being criticized for lacking specifics, many individuals on social media didn’t agree with Oz’s suggestion that well being care ought to focus solely on maintaining folks wholesome to allow them to hold working for his or her company overlords.
Oz has an extended historical past of claiming issues that appear divorced from information or cause, or simply out of contact ― such because the many quack treatments he was criticized for selling throughout his time as a TV character.
Earlier this month, Well being Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. mentioned Oz had claimed Trump has “the highest testosterone level” of anybody over 70 years previous that he has ever seen.
He unhelpfully advised in November that the answer to lowering well being care spending in America is to “get healthier.” And he advised People nervous about dropping their Medicare advantages final July to regulate to any modifications by eating less cake.
In April 2020, Oz sparked widespread controversy towards the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic by lobbying for colleges to reopen, arguing that doing so would “only cost us 2-3%, in terms of total mortality.”