'Go get a job!' Dr. Oz under fire for shaming 'able-bodied' Medicaid users
Source: Raw Story
August 14, 2025 3:00PM ET
Dr. Mehmet Oz, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, disparaged “able-bodied” Medicaid recipients, alleging they spend hours each day watching television or engaging in other “leisure-time” activities instead of pursuing what he called their God-given desire to change the world. He asked why anyone would question that the government would not want to get people to be wealthy.
The vast majority of “able-bodied” people who use Medicaid, a government safety net medical insurance program that does not provide income to recipients, are already working at least one job. In the majority of families that use Medicaid, at least one adult is working a full-time job. The majority of Medicaid users are children, people living with disabilities, or the elderly, who are unable to work.
“You want people to actually get out of their homes and go do things,” Oz told CNBC on Thursday (video below). “An able-bodied person on Medicaid today watches about 6.1 hours of television, or just hangs out — leisure time.”
“That’s a lot of time,” Oz insisted, claiming his data is sound. “No one’s gonna be happy sitting at home 6.1 hours a day doing nothing,” he insisted.
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And disparage any and all republiCONs when I get the opportunity. 
my day off was cancelled (a scheduling thing - boss said I "had no plans"
I said WTF, laying on the couch watching TV, THAT WAS MY PLAN! Yes INDEED.
I have been trying to move a little bit more because, as the old adage goes, "Move it or lose it!" Cheers and enjoy! 
I had put in for the rare Sunday off (I always worked weekends) - boss came over and asked if I really needed that day off because some other folk "really" wanted it off - I said well, I was planning to lay around and do nothing. CANCELLED! he said......so I asked him, why does anyone need that Sunday off? "It's Easter Sunday", he said. Gawd I could be so clueless.
I'll never forget that pathetic video clip. In his $20 million dollar mansion. What an ass. 
*crudité won't go in the title of my reply. It keeps getting kicked back to "crudit". Dammit!!! 
Poor Oprah created 2 certifiable monsters with this clown and Dr. Fill (in the blank) Dr. Sh7t?
