VARNEY: 11 million people would lose their coverage because of the changes to Medicaid. That's gonna be a political problem for you, isn't it? MEHMET OZ: This is really a psychology question. If you're able-bodied and able to work, on average you're spending 6.1 hours a day just hanging out.
This is the brain dead logic of the guy Trump has repeatedly tried to find work for. Oz needs to retire into the oblivion he has earned. Snake oil will sell itself.
Oz may want to stay in his own lane. Not like he has a Doctorate in psychology.
Able-bodied doesn't always mean able to work. Never mind that employers are wildly biased against hiring neurodivergent people and people with psych issues.
Does Mehmet Oz spends 6.1 hours a day torturing house pets? Inquiring minds want to know.
It’s not about people wanting to chill on the sofa. It’s about the ridiculous cost of healthcare in the US. I know people who can’t afford their company’s family healthcare plan and need Medicaid for their kids.
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Hideous ignorant malevolent
Yeah, hanging out and eating crudite. What an ass.
... so no one is allowed free time or what?
Lies that Medicare isn't impacted "I disagree. The numbers are offered by...people who do numbers..." 😒 But I won't give a # of these mythical "able-bodied" people🙄 where the hell are they getting this 6.1hrs of "hanging out" playing video games?? & it sounded like he claimed "the majority" are!
Yup. The economists say, but we won't take their results, let's ask the psychologists.
Where exactly did Oz get that figure...in Oz?
Hey Fuck Face Oz. I’m one of those disabled folks not working and hanging out all day everyday in my home. Why?, because you fricking doctors can’t fix me. There are a few million of us. You are the worst type of human. You could be practicing medicine but chose notoriety with an orange loser freak
Excellent point
Calling this guy doctor amusing!
Mr. Oz is lying to you. Though, we should remember that lying is nothing new to Mr. Oz. This is why he's Mr. Oz and not Dr. Oz.
What is the issue with 6.1 hours of leisure time? Sleep 8, work 8, play 8. Hasn’t that been the “deal” for 100 years?
How does he explain this? Because he can't. And this is just for Missouri. Even I was surprised by the numbers.
...or working a full-time job at Amazon or Walmart.
Political question > psychology question > math question. Please show your work, Doctor.
If you’re a con man who oprah foists on the world you will be able to afford the most expensive insurance money can buy. Try that before complaining.
The government demands to know why these able-bodied nuisances aren't producing more capital.
This guy needs to be tarred, feathered, and run out of town.
after trump one of the 1st things the US needs to do is universal healthcare, it’s just better for everyone and you all waste so much time, money and energy on not having it
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thanks, having had healthcare covered my whole life has been great! going to rewatch on my laptop later as there is a lot of text my old eyes can’t read on my little phone screen 🙂
Thanks! Sorry about that -- drew it on a laptop for my old eyes!
lol, it’s wonderfully detailed, keep up the great work!
Thanks!!!
.. If only we had able bodied leadership.
Oz is an asshole
These ghouls need to look in the mirror.
‘I don’t believe’ 🙄
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Does he consider bed bound able bodied? Or 85 year olds able bodied? Perhaps hospitalized is considered able bodied to these morons. Christ Sake, people on Medicaid go through an extremely difficult approval process, including Drs and Specialists documentation and prognosis.
Umm... if you work a regular 40 hour a day work week, and you get 8 hours asleep ever night. Even with an hour commute to work 5 days a week, you still have 7.4 hours or so of "hanging out" time every day on average. (and who gets 8 hours asleep anymore!).
Taking a shower, doing housekeeping, shopping for food, etc is called chores, not hanging out
How does he know?
THE WEALTHY ALWAYS KNOW ABOUT THE PATHETIC LITTLE LIVES OF THE LITTLE PEOPLE
This prick never worked up a sweat in his life.
People on Medicaid are not paid to "hang out." They are not paid anything. Their health care providers get paid to treat them.
What are these fools even talking about? You can have a job AND have healthcare covered without having to depend on your employer... These people are all millionnaires and billionnaires and they talk about things they have no idea about. Time to stop electing rich people to represent us.
In my case, no. Every health insurance company I applied to refused to cover me because I have asthma. I finally convinced my employer to offer employee health insurance, with the plan having only one member — me.
Gotta love sanctimonious and entitled
What does being able-bodied have to do with how much free time you have? Again, Medicaid is not some check that people live off of. It’s health insurance!
Health insurance that only pays minimum fees for services. Please be reminded that the largest Medicaid/ Medicare fraud case was against the former governor of Florida, Rick Scott. He is now a Senator voting to end services for 17million Americans .
Also 6.1 hours a day, isn’t that just the time outside of a 9-5 job? Love how his first point is that statistics are made up by science people & then he uses a statistic to justify his argument
And “able bodied” implies not causing major healthcare expenses, except preventative - which saves money in the long run.
The implication is that us proles should not have any leisure time to spend with our friends, family or on hobbies, exercise, cooking etc.
Exactly. The money is sent to the hospital or healthcare provider for services. If one of these "able-bodied" people on Medicaid is hurt at work or in a car accident, they will go to an ER, and if there is no Medicaid to pay for it, it most likely will just go unpaid
Because they want you to work multiple jobs and have no free time except to sleep. Idle hands and all that puritanical garbage.
Oz is a liar & a fool. Nursing homes are full of 85 year old "able-bodied workers". Riiiight.
Wait until we have only to rely on Medicaid recipients to manage our foodcrops...smh
Oz how many corporations you know want to hire people in their seventies or eighties with a cane or wheelchair. Able body or not. What happened to you. The tides have turned.
so you are working 12, spending 6.1 hours taking care of the house and kids ... and hopefully getting 5.9 Hrs of sleep
WHAT IF WE'RE SELF EMPLOYED?!
#Nazis #FuckOprahForThis
Sounds like some made-up bullshit, oz.
Where does he get the 6.1 hours a day figure? Did Varney ask? Oz is talking as if Medicaid is a guaranteed income, which is completely false. Medicaid is health insurance. It’s for kids & adults who can’t afford other insurance, & seniors who need it in addition to Medicare.
They need to be asking “why is health care tied to employment at all?”
Coercion.
Well yeah, but we need the Ms to admit that.
Oh no that won't happen silly
Likely not; but they need to be put on the spot every time they are in public.
I can guarantee that nobody who depends on SNAP or Medicaid are living life as fucking ballers. We are just getting by.
What a douche nozzle.
Yeah, Oz could care less
That is the song all the republicans are singing. It doesn’t matter how many times people prove them wrong,
Fuck off scum bag dog killer
When is the IRS going to look into Oz’s finances?
My 87 yr old Mother is going to go blind by this. Yet she should just get a job. 🖕#MAGA
talk about missing the point - probably on purpose just hanging out is the whole aim of humanity, it should be the ultimate goal of our species
And he cites zero data for that last sentence. How did he arrive at 6.1 and not, say, 6.3? He pulled that fake number out of his arrogant ass.
Thought the same thing in regards to that “data”!
So only the rich are allowed to eat cake? Fluff this guy.
Once a dickhead, always a dickhead.
The richest country in the world should have universal healthcare. Period. American individualism is mind boggling. I will never understand it.
Or you can spend 6.1 hours a day lying like a mofo like this clown.
Have him name one person
6.1??? What the actual fuck.
Hanging out??? This shows how out of touch with reality he is. He really needs to check himself
Says the pretend doctor.
It’s called sleeping. Yes, I sleep about 6 hrs a night.
So, am I hearing him say that after a full day of work, Medicaid dependent folk need to put in another half day? Motherfucker.
Republicans have been on every news outlet for the last six months telling us about these 35 million ineligible people receiving Medicaid and have not shown one single piece of proof. Time to stop lying and show the American people your evidence.
6 hrs a day just hanging out? I can’t get 5 min to myself to take a dang shower let alone “hanging out”. He must be talking about himself hang’n at MAL
Brilliant
Here comes the crudités…JFC —elitism.
Fraud and liar.
NAME WHO YOU ARE SPEAKING ABOUT
What a crock of crap based on no facts.
Republicans: It’s all about math to them. Also, Republicans realy suck at math.
It is. In the same way a guillotine is a breathing problem
I work full time, I spend 6 hours a day 'hanging out' of course in that time I'm commuting, cooking, cleaning, caring, volunteering, doing shopping, household admin. I even do some socialising. What a pr!ck.
Mostly the working poor and the disabled Mehmet. Disgusting human being 😡🇺🇸
This fucking clown!
He doesn't care. He's happy where he's at, at this point in time. Enjoying the ride while he can.
Is Oz this removed from reality? Most likely. People who have enough money to be secure and comfortable should never make decisions regarding those of us who do not. They have no frame of reference and don't care to find one.
The 2025 version of the “welfare queen” - the able-bodied person who’s just sitting around doing nothing, because they have that cushy government health insurance called Medicaid. I’m waiting for them to actually go find one of these mythical creatures-with no disabilities, no low paying job, etc.
Sick. They'd have to be ailing with something the doctor can sign his name to for Medicaid to pay him. Not the patient! Clients never receive one penny from Medicare/ Medicaid. Doctors and medical facilities do. Hanging out at home? Sick
pretty soon they'll all be "driving cadillacs."
And buying lobster with their “food stamps.” 🫤
The Wizard of Oz. Pay no attention to the jerk behind the curtain.
a: that's crazy talk
They want to bring back slavery and indentured servitude.
I thought that's what we already had with healthcare chained to employment.
Oz needs to burn at the stake.
And there’s exactly 11 million of these people?
Able bodied persons that don’t qualify that is.
Tom Barasso is a magnet of waste
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I’m thinking if you’re able bodied, healthy, and just hanging out you probably aren’t accessing your Medicaid benefits for health care?
People ARE working. This is so offensive.
The Unlicensed Oz Hasn't Had Anything To Do With The Medical Industry In Over 20 Years, And Everything He Has Done With In The Industry Was Deemed A Fraud...
The audacity of this ignorant moron is astonishing. Does he think to be untouchable ?
Ask Oz How Many Civil Settlements He Had To Pay Out To Seal The Fraud Cases For Junk He Was Selling On His Show, While Failing To Disclose To His Viewers That He Was A Top Investor In Those Fake Products.
Melania's pick.
I blame Oprah for this irritated scrotum‼️
Says the TV quack.
The Protestant Work Ethic will be used to bludgeon normal folks into endless labor
Next republican bill. Do away with the 40 hour week. People have too much free time. Everyone needs to be working more (for no extra pay).
It is actually already that way in some states like Arizona.... They call them "the right to work" states. Jobs don't have to provide overtime so that workers don't have to get a second job, because that's the American dream right....
Dear “Dr” Oz: Most able-bodied people on Medicaid are already working. For companies like Walmart, lots of them. Or small businesses that don’t provide any insurance & don’t pay enough for their employees to buy it. You’re either a fool or a liar. Or a lying fool. Or a lying liar.
I guess Taco did a reboot of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz The 2025 version is “The Appalling Cunt Called Oz”
Fuck you oz you filthy bitch
Childcare: what is it
8 hours for what we will mother fucker.
He may be spending 6.1 hours hanging out- but normal ppl don’t spend that amount of time hanging out or they get fired. Where do these ppl get their info from… their ass??
Someone should remind Oz his fame and career were a gift from a powerful Black woman
people like hanging out. comms 101 is that being anti-hangout is bad. dems should get the gangly twink to make a perplexing video about this asap.
Does Medicaid just send money to people? D5idn't it pay for medical service?
So folks on medicaid are the new "shiftless takers" huh.
Ok so lemme try the maths here: 6am wake up 6–7am get kids fed and ready for school (fix breakfast, pack lunch) 7:30-8 shower and get dressed 8am leave house 8:30 arrive at work 12–12:30 mandatory lunch break (you aren’t paid for this time) 5pm: leave work; pick kids from aftercare/sitter
6pm: Arrive home 6-7pm: Fix dinner 7-8pm: eat family dinner 8-8:30 wash up 8:30-9pm put kids to bed 9-11pm relax 11pm bed (that will get you 7 hours of sleep) This timeline doesn’t include any chores other than washing dishes after dinner (no grocery shopping, no laundry) or kid extracurrics
If you aren’t a rich person with hired help, this is pretty intense grind, especially for someone with low income trying to save money. Money buys leisure: housecleaner, lawn service, prepared meals and takeout, babysitters and more. A rich man like Oz has no clue.
There is VERY little free time in this schedule. Poor people deserve to have breathing room and time to relax. Never having any downtime is leads to misery and breakdowns.
No it’s reality, Dr. Oz.
It also needs to be said that the kinds of jobs theoretically available in this absurd scenario most likely come with zero benefits. Absolutely no one walks from Medicaid directly into a white collar job.
It’s not a psychology question.. it’s a question he doesn’t want to answer because it would be a problem politically.
In other words. There is a 20 hr per week work (or school or volunteer) requirement for able bodied people to qualify for Medicaid. Democrats appear to be against that. So they don’t tell the truth.
What happened to him 🤬
Medicaid does not pay a person to just hang out, which Dr Oz knows full well. For those in the back:
A-f*cking-men
He spends 100% of his day on useless bullshit.
The psychologically damaged fucker is the douchebag who went on tv every day and lied to overweight housewives.
How does he know that the Medicaid workers spend 6 hours in front of the TV? Show me where this jerk got that info. Most of the people on Medicaid work.
Eat shit OZ. You are a disease not a cure.
The inability to empathize or answer a direct question raises several psychological questions as well. Also moral and ethical ones.
Are these fucking people stupid? Do we have to remind them that Medicaid isn’t writing checks to people, it’s simply healthcare. But I guess they won’t be happy until the morgues are filled with dead poor people.
Where does he get this number?
He is in an administration whose leader is an overweight, big mac eating and cola drinking slob and he's telling the American people that they've got to live healthier to deserve Healthcare? Also, a large percentage of employed people can only afford Medicaid. Why is this so hard to understand?
Seriously. A real reporter’s next question should be “How many hours of tv does the president watch?” theweek.com/speedreads/8...
The ".1" makes it sound ever so much more like he didn't just pull the number out of his....er, thin air
The psychology question is really about answering “why?” the sadistic leadership of MAGA appointees is endemic, but barely called out by MSM.
Says the guy hanging out in TV studios all fucking day.
Don’t you have to find out EXACTLY who and how many are cheating Medicaid BEFORE you cut the budget? You might be able to save even more money!!! Or, these cuts will endanger and kill people. Either way, it’s usually good to measure twice, cut once.
Thanks Oprah
This is a know-nothing, snake oil salesman. Shame on the media for taking him seriously. Did they check on his past before having him on?
Vs. 6.1 hours a day on teevee talk shows like this administration?
ABLE-BODIED PEOPLE DON'T GET MEDICAID. Please, any able-bodied, go try to get it and bring us a receipt. Then we can talk. They created this whole new category of able-bodied on medicaid who can go work on farm. Such people don't exist, but they are ready to put them in charge of our food.
A love fest between two charlatans whose whole existence i owed to promoting lies
Spoken like someone who's never worked a monent in their fucking life. Like how fucking disconnected can you be, goddamn.
8-8-8!
What % of people on Medicaid are able-bodied? Oz making a straw man argument. "All of the pink Martians on Medicaid spend too much time watching TV. Therefore, we need to cut Medicaid funding."
Damn nursing home scroungers, with their govt-issued walkers and colostomy bags, let's get 'em out into the fresh air, picking tomatoes and strawberries, dammit! Solves two problems at once!
A lot. And they are already working...
Not that I trust any Fed stats right now but lets see: -Total # on Medicaid -% able-bodied & non able-bodied -% of each group who have jobs -of those with jobs, % with insurance thru work. MAGA isn't talking about any of these numbers, only about TV viewing hours.
Leonidas, good point. Many people on Medicaid are already working. Oz, Trump administration, & MAGA are implying or straight out claiming that "able-bodied" people on Medicaid are not working & just ripping off the system.
Yup. Bunch of liars 😡
Disgusting evil monster Oz.
Why isn't he out there picking lettuce and tomatoes then?
Someone show me the math on how these young able-bodied people are somehow using up $800B in healthcare If theyre going to the Dr that much, theyre probs not that “able-bodied”
That's right. Not taking care of children, aging parents, getting the chores done; cleaning, garden work, home repair, shopping, cooking, addressing mail, catching up on the day with partners/family/friends, gassing up vehicles, attending doctor appointments, refilling perscripts...just hanging out.
What colon do they pull these "numbers" out of? Follow up: How many hours does Oz spend just hanging out on Fox?
lol, seriously. How many hours a day are these clowns doing “interviews” so their boss is happy? Hegseth needed his own makeup and hair room and Noem needs to show off her cute “I’m bad ass but also pretty” work outfits. Trump complains if he doesn’t see them when it’s “executive time.”
That doesn’t answer the question and never will because what he and the other obscenely rich fascists want a forced labor, indebted work force.
Mehmet Pasha
Able-bodied people don’t cost Medicaid anything. It’s medical care.
He means having a life??
We are led by jackasses
If all able bodied people can work why isn't there 100 % employment. There are lots of people trying to get jobs who have given up trying because there are no jobs to be found for there skills set. What's the government going to do transport all of them from mostly city or urban areas to the farms?
Debtors prison camps.
It's sounds fringe. But given the psychopaths currently in power it may very well be an idea a few of them have considered. The wealthy think they hold the power & privilege to lord over the lesser masses. We are many. Resist & we will prevail.
Damn, I really don't want these people making decisions on how I should live my life. I wish they would butt the fuck out. It's not about health, it's about control.
Need to include commute time in that 8 hours of work. That's not my leisure time, that's labor time.
It's a 10 hour day working with a commute/dropping kids off to daycare, which leaves 6 hours - food shopping, prep, clean up, homework, school sport or activity, laundry, taking care of an elderly parent - all the stuff that gets done after work doesn't leave too much time for the chill leisure bit.
He pulled that number out of his ass. Reporters need to ask what is the source for that metric “6.1 hours per day”.
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How about if it’s 5.9 hours? Are we all good then?
Oprah sure knew how to pick em
Is..is he advocating slavery?
6.1 is oddly specific.
So fucking what Oz? Don't tell people what they should do with THEIR time. What an asshole.
Since Medicaid/Medicare aren't cash assistance, they're payment for medical services, any "wage, fraud, & abuse" are at the doctor or ins level. Just ask Rick "biggest Medicare fraud in Florida history" Scott.
ignoring it won't make it go away
No, an actual psychology question is: How much of a effing dumb ass are you?
What a grossly out of touch troll. Go buy some more crudite, you fraud. Just can’t understand the perverse pleasure they get inflicting pain on innocent Americans
Recipients not working is a false talking point. Only a small percentage (8%) were not working for other reasons like retirement or inability to find work. Facts below. In addition, you cannot save enough money by having non-workers work. The math doesn’t add up.
Why are they asking this loser.
Huh??? his answer makes zero sense
Umm… work 9-5 (full time) and that leaves 6 hours for “hanging out” cooking, doing laundry, caring for the kids, homework, friends, cleaning and maybe some time playing video games or watching TV or reading. We call that the American lifestyle.
Oh, man, 6 hours of "leisure" a day! We're all slacking. This "work the peasants 'til they drop" bullshit would be laughable of these clowns didn't have the power to do enact it.
That POS depended on people hanging out during the middle of the day to watch his infomercial TV show so he could push expensive, questionable products. He can go fuck himself. #GOPkills
The very people he wants to get out there and pick fruit and vegetables no matter what their health condition is.
We do not need more rich white men who have no concept of what it's like to work for a living in positions of power. Or that have no concept that you can be working and be on Medicaid because we don't pay a living wage in this country.
Every day when I see dumpster fire on tv
I know fox is owned by a very old man and they let old men come on board and lie through their teeth. We are so tired of them constantly lying every day just to rob us blind. Every old dog has its day!! It can’t come soon enough 🆘
I'd love to know their definition of "able bodied." I have a feeling it's *breathing*. "Roll that wheelchair over here and start picking those blueberries. It should be easier for you, you're sitting down."
Distracting the Easily Distracted
these people. Do they know #maga at all?? too funny
I'm 64, and to look at me my doctors don't even believe it, but let me tell you, your life becomes one trip to a doctor in all directions multiple times a week, and you're in mild pain all the time for nothing. Even a quack like Oz knows that. This is all gaslighting.
This new false narrative that they're only kicking able-bodied lazy shammers off medicaid, therefore it's ok, is typical Republican bait n switch bullshit.
Gee, he sounds so sensical, but what he isn't saying is that most people on Medicaid are working. So, maybe if we want people off Medicaid we need to raise the minimum wage to a livable wage.
Not only that, he’s implying that Medicaid is a monthly dole, like Social Security Disability. It’s not. It’s health insurance. That’s all it is.
Or just do away with insurance altogether and go to single payer like every other developed country on the planet.
But that would be socialism😆
You mean like Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security already are? 😱🤯
Well, I'll be! You don't say? Look there, we have us some socialism already. 😳
You can also add agriculture bailouts to the socialism list - you know, the kind that become necessary when Trump plays his 'look at me' Game of Tariffs. Also add disaster relief - that's definitely one of socialism's biggest growth industries! 😞
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You see, Martin, it's all psychological. You yell barracuda...
Said the psychologist of cruelty !!
I watched his show occasionally a long time ago. It seems he has switched his preoccupation with bowel movements to kicking people off their health insurance.
Less than 7 million people TOTAL are unemployed in the US. Screw that asshole Oz..
I’m wondering how many were pregnant or newly postpartum, and if that category is getting grouped in with “able-bodied”. That would be disastrous for a lot of states.
Thanks for the graphic.
These people are absolutely clueless.
Evil, not clueless. They are hoping the people to whom they are communicating are indeed clueless though.
And what of the millions who won't be able to afford premiums on the ACA exchanges and do actually work? The subsidies are going away.
Does he have kids? I haven't just "hung out" in 150 years!
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Tired of this stupid ass argument, show us the people you speak of, you are a grifter and a Carney.
Mark Carney seems an honorable sort though
Whatever happened to needing support and data for your arguments? They just go on tv and spew their own made up prejudice, based on nothing and it becomes “truth.” This is not journalism.
Mehmet 1st off has been a licensed doctor for a year and he does not care about anyone or anything but himself he is a selfish little prick and i feel he should be deported back to Turkey
The GOP regime fetishizes forcing poor & disabled people to do physical labor for scraps. A cruel & historic wealth transfer. #resist #medicaid
Most people on Medicaid HAVE JOBS!!!!
Fuck Oprah
One of the poxes she let loose on us.
That guy is SUCH an arrogant prick. Ugh.
Thank you, Oprah!
Aside from his statistical lies, why does the Republican Party not believe everyone deserves health care? ALL other industrial countries have found a way to provide it and have better health outcomes
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"Children and elderly are such freeloaders"
Let them eat cake!
6.1 hours hanging out? Let's see... 8 hours at work 8 hours of sleep 1.9 eating/errands 6.1 to recover for tomorrow. Oh, I see, we're supposed to work every minute to produce for the oligarchs. No free time. No relaxation. No recovery. Just work until we die and get replaced by the next cog.
Don’t eat cake …..Oz brings cake ?
"If you're able-bodied and able to work" includes everybody who's working full time, part time, or not at all. Oz obviously doesn't know what he's saying, but why should anyone find that surprising?
It takes about 2 years for a lot of people to get disability, because they have to appeal. A paralegal told me she had to file an appeal for a man in a coma.... People will die.
Hopefully, the Fox viewers can comprehend this statement. But, I fear they believe that they are the "special ones" and they will be spared....alas this is the problem with maga.
By saying 6.1hrs, it makes it sound like a real statistic
Fuck all the way off Oz..you phony, charlatan jackhole.
