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Dr. Oz erupts when confronted with Trump’s self-inflicted problem
What happened
AlterNet reports that Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator Mehmet Oz raised his voice and accused Gray Media reporter Molly Martinez of being “deliberately duplicitous” after she contrasted two provisions of President Donald Trump’s domestic policy law: an estimated $137 billion reduction in federal Medicaid spending in rural areas over ten years and a $50 billion rural health initiative operating from 2026 through 2030.
Oz disputed the comparison, arguing that Medicaid dollars routed through states often benefit large urban hospital systems rather than…
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