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Dr. Mehmet Oz | Federal Medicaid Czar Details Widespread Fraud in NYC · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: When you become friendly with doctor Oz, you get to
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  Speaker 1: call them lamet.
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  Speaker 2: So what that said? Good morning, Mamett, how are you
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  Speaker 2: my friend?
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  Speaker 3: Good morning? Thanks for having me on Love the song,
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  Speaker 3: Love the intro and Mario as a friend, so I
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  Speaker 3: admire very much the value of that music.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, you actually know the singer from Thompson Twins, so
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  Speaker 1: you really do know yourself, Doctor Roz.
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  Speaker 2: That's pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: Let me ask you one thing that's out of love Field,
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  Speaker 1: and if you don't know the answer, that's fine. What
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  Speaker 1: the hell's going on with legion air's disease here in
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  Speaker 1: New York? You know anything about that or why so
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  Speaker 1: many people are coming down with it? We've got four
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  Speaker 1: people dead already from that.
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  Speaker 3: I have not been tracking it. I know that Secretary
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  Speaker 3: Kennedy is all over it. It came up in a
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  Speaker 3: brief conversation yesterday with the head of the acting head
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  Speaker 3: of the CDC, J Bodisharia, so I know they're aggressively
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  Speaker 3: managing it. You know, the lesionaires is linked to air
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  Speaker 3: conditioning and where water is being stored in large buildings,
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  Speaker 3: so once the bacteria starts to grow, it could be
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  Speaker 3: a problem. But it's not the first time it's happened,
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  Speaker 3: and they won't be the last. We just have to
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  Speaker 3: aggressively treat it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's funny you mentioned you with Bobby talking
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  Speaker 1: about this meeting yesterday, and for folks that aren't paying.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of attention, you know, they do.
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  Speaker 1: They watch Lope box News, They listen to me every day.
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  Speaker 1: They think that all you guys do is talk about
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  Speaker 1: vaccines or you know, but when you think about it,
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  Speaker 1: or eating or diets, look that you guys are involved
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  Speaker 1: with this legionnaire's outbreak here, you're involved with fraud. So
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  Speaker 1: that department that Bobby Kennedy runs and now you become
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  Speaker 1: such an integral part of that department's success.
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  Speaker 2: You guys have a lot on your plate, a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's a two trillion dollar plus agency. It's the
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  Speaker 3: largest federal agency. And people don't appreciate that because you know,
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  Speaker 3: we spend a lot of money other things too, but
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  Speaker 3: it's twice the size of the Defense Department. So the
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  Speaker 3: Secretary is in charge of, you know, tons of programs
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  Speaker 3: that manage the health of this country, including the FDA,
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  Speaker 3: the nih which does all the research, the CDC which
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  Speaker 3: helps with infections like legionaires and the parasite that was
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  Speaker 3: causing food poisoning and lettuce. I mean, these are all
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  Speaker 3: different parts of it. My area happens to be the
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  Speaker 3: Insurance of America for our public services, so Medicare and
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  Speaker 3: Medicaid and the Obamacare exchanges. So we cover almost one
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  Speaker 3: hundred and seventy million Americans. And that's why just my
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  Speaker 3: little part of it is almost two trillion dollars by itself,
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  Speaker 3: because the money has to go through us in order
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  Speaker 3: to get out to the people, pay the hospitals, the
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  Speaker 3: clinics and medications and all the different factors to get involved.
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  Speaker 3: And that's why it ends up becoming political quite a
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  Speaker 3: bit because people like to get upset about health care
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  Speaker 3: costs for good reason, because they're upset when they go
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  Speaker 3: to a pharmacy and they can't afford their medications. That's
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  Speaker 3: a good example where the President said enough to us,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we don't want one third of people walking
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  Speaker 3: out of pharmacy's empty handed when a doctor prescribes them
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  Speaker 3: met and they can't afford to buy it. That's not
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  Speaker 3: good healthcare. So that's why we negotiated the most favorite
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  Speaker 3: nation drug prices that have now dramatically reduced drug prices
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  Speaker 3: in ways that we will save the America and people
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  Speaker 3: about six hundred billion dollars. These are big numbers, hard
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  Speaker 3: to processes, but that is a remarkable change in just
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  Speaker 3: the year and a half we've been in office. But
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  Speaker 3: you touched on fraud, which is the topic that I
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  Speaker 3: think most Americans right now are so upset about. And
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  Speaker 3: most fraud at the federal level is against healthcare my agency.
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  Speaker 3: And the reason for that is because if you can
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  Speaker 3: get someone's Medicare beneficiary number, which is like a credit card,
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  Speaker 3: it's your official government number for insurance, or you can
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  Speaker 3: take advantage of Medicaid, which states often do because, as
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  Speaker 3: they often say in New York, just medicate it, which
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  Speaker 3: means shift to cost over to the federal government from
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  Speaker 3: the state government. That way, state doesn't have to worry
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  Speaker 3: about it for its budget, and by shifting it over
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  Speaker 3: to the federal government they help. No one will notice,
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  Speaker 3: but we noticed, and that's why I'm spending a lot
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  Speaker 3: of time in New York. Whereas you know, I practiced
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  Speaker 3: for many years at Columbia University and live there, Braise
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  Speaker 3: my kids there, so you know, I love the area
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  Speaker 3: and I respect how much good has come out of it.
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  Speaker 3: But we have got to deal with the fraud issue
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  Speaker 3: because ultimately, if New York games the system, and then
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  Speaker 3: California games the system, and then other states start doing
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  Speaker 3: the same, you bankrupt the entire system that we have
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  Speaker 3: crafted to take care of our most vulnerable one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm glad that you guys kind of employed Nick Shirley.
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  Speaker 1: Nick Shirley blew the doors off of Minnesota a couple
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  Speaker 1: of months ago, and I know he made the he
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  Speaker 1: ran with you here in New York. So it turns
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  Speaker 1: out that Nick Shirley so not to be a really
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  Speaker 1: important aspect in undercover undercovering this fraud.
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  Speaker 3: So in my office, I have a Honey Badgers. It's
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  Speaker 3: a just a bit of a stuff, honey Badger, and
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  Speaker 3: Nick shaw it and said, you know what, that was
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  Speaker 3: his nickname in high school. And I think he's earned it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Honey Badger don't care. Honey Badger fights the
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  Speaker 3: battles that need to be For one, it'll bite the cobra,
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  Speaker 3: it'll take on it, fop bees, everything. But the part
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  Speaker 3: about the honey badger is once you bite something, you
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  Speaker 3: don't let go o Rick, because people don't want to
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  Speaker 3: get caught. There's lots of money here. Let's take Flushing
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  Speaker 3: Queens is a good example. So Nick and I were
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  Speaker 3: out there, and you know, we spent some time researching
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  Speaker 3: get Nick does his homework and Nick bravely will walk
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  Speaker 3: into facilities and ask hard questions like who owns the
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  Speaker 3: place and how many people you're taking care of of
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  Speaker 3: in this small little footprint. Because I saw your billing
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  Speaker 3: to medicate and you know, a State of New York
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  Speaker 3: paid you whatever it is, ten million dollars last year.
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  Speaker 3: That's a lot of people getting care. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: I don't see the ability for you to do that
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  Speaker 3: in a small little space. And then of course you
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  Speaker 3: watch these folks run for the hills because they know
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  Speaker 3: they are caught. So I was walking around with him
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  Speaker 3: in Flushing, Queens visiting pharmacies. These what are called social
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  Speaker 3: adult day care centers, which you guys never heard of,
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  Speaker 3: but it's the biggest business you've ever heard of. They
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  Speaker 3: charge justin Queens and Brooklyn two point one billion dollars
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  Speaker 3: over the past few years to state medicaid. Now here's
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  Speaker 3: the problem. When the state of New York gets that bill,
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  Speaker 3: they don't just sit on it. They tax New Yorkers
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  Speaker 3: part of it about a third. The rest of it
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  Speaker 3: they charge me. That's at the federal level. And so
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  Speaker 3: that means every tax payer in America is paying two
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  Speaker 3: point one billion dollars to social adult daycare, which I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to explain the second in just Queens and Brooklyn.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, the entire state in New York is
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  Speaker 3: four hundred million dollars outside of that area. So it's
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  Speaker 3: five six times more than the rest of the state
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  Speaker 3: put together, just in those two little burrows. And the
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  Speaker 3: crazy thing is that you're going to say, hold on
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  Speaker 3: to this because you're not going to believe this. Social
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  Speaker 3: adult day care centers are basically places that seniors go
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  Speaker 3: to hang out, you go play majong. They're primarily Chinese
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  Speaker 3: and Koreans there, and we actually believe there's organized criminal
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  Speaker 3: activity that's behind some of this. This is what folks
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  Speaker 3: on the ground are telling us there. I've gone there
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  Speaker 3: with law enforcements a couple of times. Now I've been there.
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  Speaker 3: It's remarkable. You understand how they did it. It's a clubhouse.
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  Speaker 3: Then of inequity. They bring seniors in. They've taught to
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  Speaker 3: seniors that they can get bribed by let's say, one
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  Speaker 3: thousand dollars a month just to show up and give
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  Speaker 3: them their beneficiary number, give them the ID number. With
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  Speaker 3: that number, they begin to charge all kinds of crazy things.
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  Speaker 3: They send them electric wheelchairs they don't need, expensive prescription
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  Speaker 3: medications they don't want. They order tests they don't ever get,
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  Speaker 3: and all this stuff generate these fake bills and that
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  Speaker 3: are not charged against the medicaid system, which again I
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  Speaker 3: have to pay for most of and with your tax dollars.
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  Speaker 3: And this system gets bigger and bigger and bigger because
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  Speaker 3: once you realize how to gain the system, which is
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  Speaker 3: what we basically allowed America to figure out during COVID,
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  Speaker 3: that if you steal from the government, we're not going
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  Speaker 3: to come after you. And so foreign actors got involved,
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  Speaker 3: foreign criminal entities and foreign governments got involved in these endeavors,
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  Speaker 3: and they just run circles around us, which is why
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  Speaker 3: being so tough on New York, we want them to
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  Speaker 3: clean this up.
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  Speaker 1: When you say foreign governments, I want to get more specific.
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  Speaker 1: Are we talking about China here? Especially in Plushing Queens.
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  Speaker 1: It's implausible that you would not have foreign governments like China,
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  Speaker 1: for example, involved in this. It's possible they're not. It's
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  Speaker 1: possible that it's a small part of what they're up to,
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  Speaker 1: but they're involved in lots of other disinformation that we
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  Speaker 1: know of, and so if nothing else, they're sort of
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  Speaker 1: happy that this is happening. But we know that from
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  Speaker 1: accusations made by local people in Miami that the Cuban
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  Speaker 1: government has been involved in some of the fraud down there.
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  Speaker 1: They have twice as many durable medical equipment suppliers that
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  Speaker 1: sell those wheelchairs that I just mentioned that it can
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  Speaker 1: be ten thousand dollars electric wheelchairs. They go up and
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  Speaker 1: down right, They'll move those things really quickly, shift the
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  Speaker 1: money overseas as soon as they get the cash from
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  Speaker 1: the government, then they flee back to Cuba. So whether
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  Speaker 1: the Cuban government's orchestrating it or just aiding at abetting it,
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  Speaker 1: who knows. You know, the Russians are involved in California
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  Speaker 1: and Philadelphia in some of the fraud that we're seeing
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  Speaker 1: those area. So again, if you're a foreign country and
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  Speaker 1: you can use the American healthcare system as at Piggybank,
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  Speaker 1: it's almost your job to take advantage of it and
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  Speaker 1: is our job to stop you from doing it. It's
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  Speaker 1: interesting because when we think of our adversaries or enemies
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  Speaker 1: on the warfront, for example, we think of China, we
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  Speaker 1: think of Russia, we think of North Korea, we think
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  Speaker 1: of Cuba, who were going to fix coming up very
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  Speaker 1: very soon, thank god. But all those countries that are
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  Speaker 1: providing our enemies with weapons and intelligence and working against
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  Speaker 1: us on.
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  Speaker 2: The warfront are the same countries.
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  Speaker 1: That are robbing us blind right here in the United States.
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  Speaker 2: And let's not forget us.
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  Speaker 1: You pointed this out Sunday on WABC with John You know,
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  Speaker 1: you talk about Chinese, for example, and they're involved in this,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they are Korea, but they're also involved in
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  Speaker 1: some really tawdry stuff like human sex trafficking.
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  Speaker 2: These are the same people that are doing that. Is
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  Speaker 2: that not right?
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  Speaker 3: You're right? And again I've heard that from law enforced
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  Speaker 3: business people that I trust, saying that the mecca human
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  Speaker 3: trafficking in certainly the Northeast is in Queens. And you
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  Speaker 3: can go to Flushing and see what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you a true story of what happened when
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  Speaker 3: I went to Flushing for the very first time, and
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  Speaker 3: this is, you know, more than six months ago. And
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  Speaker 3: I show up there and I am walking through the streets,
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  Speaker 3: and I noticed how many healthcare companies are there, like
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  Speaker 3: radiology clinics, acupuncture clinics, herb clinics, pharmacies, you know, anything
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  Speaker 3: you'd ever want to have. I mean's got too many
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  Speaker 3: to make sense. And there'll be a dozen pharmacies on
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  Speaker 3: one city block. That's impossible, and why would you ever
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  Speaker 3: do that. So I'm walking down the street and just
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  Speaker 3: looking at this and chronicling it, and one of my
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  Speaker 3: charge nurses from Columbia walks up to me and she says, Oh,
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  Speaker 3: I'm so glad to see you. Oh, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: this woman is you know, this is a warrior. She
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  Speaker 3: is brave, fearless. You know, we've done lots of wonderful
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  Speaker 3: life saving things together. She's unflappable. And so as she
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  Speaker 3: notices that I'm there with other people like law enforcement,
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  Speaker 3: she asks me why I'm in Flushing. I tell her
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  Speaker 3: that I'm worried about these social adult daycare centers. I
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  Speaker 3: think they're basically clubhouses to bring together seniors and then
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  Speaker 3: get their ID numbers and start to take advantage of
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  Speaker 3: the healthcare system. Of America. She panicked. You could see
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  Speaker 3: the fear in her eyes.
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  Speaker 2: Oh boy.
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  Speaker 3: She immediately said, I had to leave. She couldn't talk
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  Speaker 3: to me anymore. It was too dangerous. I didn't know
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  Speaker 3: what I was doing. Please right now, I need to
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  Speaker 3: get off the streets. And then she ran away. Wow.
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  Speaker 3: You work with someone for decades and you see that
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  Speaker 3: kind of fear in their eye, you knew, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's authentic. She was worried for me, and she was
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  Speaker 3: worried for her sealthishuess working to me. So I get
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  Speaker 3: lots of threats. I understand all that's part of you
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  Speaker 3: know that this job comes with that. But this is
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  Speaker 3: at a different level of corruption, and we're seeing this
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  Speaker 3: all over the country. I was with Bhillias Staley, who's
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  Speaker 3: a great US attorney in Los Angeles, taking out the
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  Speaker 3: drug cartels in MacArthur Park. MacArthur Park is a normally
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  Speaker 3: pretty part of Los Angeles. Now it's basically an open
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  Speaker 3: air drug market and when you go there, you see
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  Speaker 3: the different cartels writing their logos on the buildings. They've
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  Speaker 3: taken over parts of the city. They own those parts
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  Speaker 3: of the city. We discovered twenty kilos a fentanyl. But
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  Speaker 3: from the Sinaloa cartel that we confiscated twenty kilos of Sentinel,
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  Speaker 3: you can kill two hundred thousand Americans death. These are
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  Speaker 3: massive businesses. And again, where's that fentanyl coming from. It's
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  Speaker 3: coming from China through Mexico in this case. So it's
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  Speaker 3: again it's not a bunch of small town operators. The
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  Speaker 3: message to take away from today's discussion is that these
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  Speaker 3: are not a bunch of little low lives doing that.
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  Speaker 3: This is weaponized, sophisticated, multinational criminal syndicates that are involved
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  Speaker 3: in and an effort to the fraud this country. It
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  Speaker 3: is the tip of the iceberg. There's other kinds of
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  Speaker 3: fraud and an abuse and waste as well. And just
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  Speaker 3: to put a number on this is about one hundred
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  Speaker 3: billion dollars a year just from the healthcare system. If
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  Speaker 3: we fix that, we will double the life expectancy of
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  Speaker 3: the Medicare Trust Fund restated. If you're working your tailoff
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  Speaker 3: right now and your worried, Medicare will not be there
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  Speaker 3: for you when you're ready to retire at sixty five.
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  Speaker 3: This beautiful golden you know program we have it's a
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  Speaker 3: parachute to catch you and gently lower you down when
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  Speaker 3: you stop working at the end of years of effort.
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  Speaker 3: If your worried is not going to be there for you,
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  Speaker 3: we take our fraud. It'll be there for you and
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  Speaker 3: your kids.
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  Speaker 2: Big deal.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 1: I'm actually hosting an event tonight at a bar on
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  Speaker 1: the Upper East Side in New York with a guy
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  Speaker 1: named Joseph Hernandez. He mentioned you on this show yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: He's running for the New York State controller job. And
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  Speaker 1: he said to me, he said, you know, say it,
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  Speaker 1: doctor Oz. All these wonderful people exposing all this fraud
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  Speaker 1: you know in New York. He goes, it's my job
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  Speaker 1: to put the people who are doing this in jail.
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  Speaker 2: Where are the repercussions?
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  Speaker 1: Now, the problem becomes if these are foreign syndicates.
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  Speaker 2: Which they all like you're stating.
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  Speaker 1: A little more difficult for a state controller to put
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  Speaker 1: these people in jail.
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  Speaker 2: But even at the state level.
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  Speaker 1: They're aware, doctor Oge of the criminal activity and they
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  Speaker 1: wanted to do something about it.
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  Speaker 3: There's lots they can do about it. And one of
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  Speaker 3: the realities is these folks will run to the place
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  Speaker 3: that not looking for them if you do not go
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  Speaker 3: after them. Not only would they burrow more deeply into
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  Speaker 3: the ecosystem. But they will corrupt every part of the
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  Speaker 3: way that you run your government. They'll own everything. That's
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  Speaker 3: what happens at third world nations. So we have now
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  Speaker 3: created nationwide moratoriums on new programs. For example, with those
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  Speaker 3: Gerbo medical equipments that I've been talking about, the wheelchairs, canes,
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  Speaker 3: the catheters, nationwide moratorium. We already stucked out one and
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  Speaker 3: a half billion dollars a fraud from that business. We
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  Speaker 3: wiped it out. We went after skin substitutes, took to
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  Speaker 3: fifteen billion dollars of expenses just from that industry that
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  Speaker 3: we believe was disingenuous and disingenuously selling stuff through doctors
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  Speaker 3: into the system. So if you stop the corruption, their rats,
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  Speaker 3: they will leave. They'll go try to defraud us somewhere else.
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  Speaker 3: They'll go to defraud banks or schools. So they're snap,
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  Speaker 3: but they're going to leave healthcare alone. And that's important
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  Speaker 3: because when you steal money from our most vulnerable citizens
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  Speaker 3: who are really in trouble and need the care for
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  Speaker 3: team or rehab or whatever, and you steal their money,
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  Speaker 3: you take away their services. You don't just take away
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  Speaker 3: their money, take their health away. You take their lives away.
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  Speaker 3: So the stakes are much higher. And plus, as I mentioned,
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  Speaker 3: the money is in healthcare, you get them out of healthcare,
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  Speaker 3: the stakes are smaller. The criminals will still steal, but
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  Speaker 3: take a zero off the end of what they can
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  Speaker 3: get away with.
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  Speaker 2: Terrible last one for you.
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  Speaker 1: You revealed yesterday, doctor Oz that the healthy you retirement
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  Speaker 1: habit that could make America one trillion dollars richer includes
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  Speaker 1: meaningful relationships, the storative routines, screen free evenings may help
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  Speaker 1: reduce stress. All these things you think can help America
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  Speaker 1: not only get well but get wealthy.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't that true?
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  Speaker 3: It's true, and for one really important reason, everything you
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  Speaker 3: just mentioned will allow us to live life with such vitality,
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  Speaker 3: such vigor, such of a jois of a joy, that
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  Speaker 3: we'll actually want to work one year longer. Let me
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  Speaker 3: just put that out there so y'all think about it.
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  Speaker 3: I know you're not every going out there wants to
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  Speaker 3: do an extra year of work, but working longer actually
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  Speaker 3: is correlated with better longevity. Purpose and mission. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you have agency on this, or God puts you here
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  Speaker 3: to accomplish things. So if you are healthy enough, because
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  Speaker 3: you've taken care of yourself and the system has worked
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  Speaker 3: for you to maintain your health that you want to
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  Speaker 3: work just one year longer instead of retiring at age
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  Speaker 3: you retire sixty three. That one year is worth one
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  Speaker 3: trillion dollars to the US economy. Just process that one
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  Speaker 3: trillion dollars. Deal with the GDP issues. Three hundred billion
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  Speaker 3: of taxes comes from that pace for Medicare, Medicaid, all
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  Speaker 3: these unemployment benefits. It helps us balance our budget. And
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  Speaker 3: all we got to do is take advantage of the
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  Speaker 3: most valuable thing America has, which is its people. Take
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  Speaker 3: care of our people, make our people healthy, vital, vibrant,
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  Speaker 3: and they will do more to create more and continue
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  Speaker 3: to make our nation healthy. That's the secret to America's success.
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  Speaker 3: We work.
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  Speaker 1: You're a special guy, doctor Oz. I mean that sincerely.
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  Speaker 1: Bobby's lucky to have you. We'll lucky to have you.
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  Speaker 1: I consider you a great friend. My met you WILLI
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  Speaker 1: au terrific. Thank you so much for coming on this morning.
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  Speaker 1: You're always great and continued success in helping America every day.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, my friend, God bless you said you care
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  Speaker 2: me too.
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Oz. Right there, my friend memet Oz, right here,
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  Speaker 1: and hopped on this morning. Thank you, doctor Roz.
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