Mehmet Oz, widely recognized as television’s “Dr. Oz” and President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to head Medicare and Medicaid, has sparked controversy over resurfaced remarks from a 2013 speech, where he addressed the balance between personal and governmental responsibility for the uninsured.
Dr. Oz told members of the National Governors’ Association (video below) that uninsured Americans “don’t have the right to health,” but should be given “a way of crawling back out of the abyss of darkness of fear over not having the health they need.” That, he suggested, could come via physicals in a “festival-like setting.”
Oz, described by the AP as a “celebrity heart surgeon turned talk show host and lifestyle guru,” had urged members of the NGA to “think about” those physicals, promoting them as “incredibly inexpensive to run,” while declaring that “local hospitals will fund” them.
“You can screen thousands of people for almost nothing, and you allow a conversation and take place in more of a festival-like setting,” Oz said. “It’s not scary, […]
Apparently, the choices that Trump has made for people to be part of his administration is clearly part of his love of chaos. He has chosen so many people who are totally unqualified and even dangerous for positions in his administration. He loves chaos because then people are paying attention to the nutty things that are happening instead of what HE is doing and planning—all, of course, to either enrich himself or gaining more power. Americans need to be vigilant and speak up when they see chaos and wrong doing or this will be the most disastrous
administration in history, harming not just Americans but the world! He is very dangerous; don’t be fooled. Pay attention. Your life may depend on it.
I believe fear is the overall factor that’s affecting how people vote, and they say and do. Fear is an energy that not only influences decisions, it affects one’s overall health…. Fear based reactive decisions do not call up clarity. The body’s systems become more acidic.
For years, I’ve used a combination allopathic medicine, acupuncture, diet, exercise, meditation and herbs. And the combination, the elixir that has kept me healthy, more happy than not. Mainly, I’ve used Chinese medicine, acupuncture, herbs in addition to a balanced diet. Harvard University speaks of the Chinese influence on health and recommends a diet that’s similar, i.e. one that emphasizes veggies, fruit and whole grains.
What I believe is necessary to good health is exercise, meditation and a balanced diet. See the above comments.