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Dr. Oz is on my flight right now. He is sitting in the very first seat, front row. I saw him get on the plane. So when I stepped off the jetway onto the plane I approached him and put my hand out. What the man in charge of healthcare for the people on the very margins of society said…was revealing

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I said: “Sir, you need to stop kicking hundreds of thousands of people off health insurance just because they are vulnerable. ‘Not using you insurance’ is not a reason to evict someone from their insurance.”

We were mid-handshake and he pulled me in and grabbed tighter and got upset and raised his voice and said: "What are you talking about man?! Those aren't real people. They're illegal aliens!"

Illegal aliens famously pay every month for health insurance that they also dastardly refuse to use in order to destroy ‘murika. What part of this don’t you understand? /s

Really? Perhaps he should talk to one of the citizens they’re kicking off because she doesn’t have a passport or enhanced drivers license WHICH IS NOT REQUIRED FOR ACA. These people!! 🤬 bsky.app/profile/stef...

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He says they’ve written these people, they didn’t reply, and they’ve never used it so they’re fraudulent. Here’s what one of them said on FB tonight. They gave her 2 weeks to produce an “enhanced drivers license” or passport to prove citizenship — neither of which she has. (Only a regular license)

Probably laughed about it later. He isn't stupid enough to think that's true. Not that it matters, it's the same outcome either way. But no one should ever let him say shit like this and not be loudly shamed for it.

The idea is so absurd. I am on Obamacare you need register with your state including your SSN to verify your income. There are no undocumented immigrants on these insurance programs.

His definition of illegal alien is someone making less than $16,000 per year. Has nothing to do with their citizenship or status apparently.

Once someone allows themselves to put the "subhuman" label on a group of people, it's only downhill from there.

Maybe someone needs to tell him that they’re not actually literally “aliens”. Kind of like someone needs to tell Trump that asylum seekers aren’t people that escaped from an asylum. 🤦‍♂️ And of course he’s lying his ass off that it’s all illegals.

Oz is another one who has lost his marbles but has nobody close to him who cares enough to stop him making a fool of himself.

I kept walking to my seat a few rows behind him. His staff or security are not happy with me. But Oz holds a position of public trust and is using it to make life unlivable for human beings in America. I should be the least of his problems. If you see Oz, let him have it. Let them eat crudités.

Besides being bullshit and racist, it is also stupid as fuck. if they aren't filing claims, then who gives a damn? What a performative asshole. Hope karma has something health related in his future for him.

Thank you for saying something to him. I work at a benefits office (SNAP and Medicaid plus some specific state and county programs) and this administration change has been very damaging and I wish people could understand how devastating these changes are.

I read this post about 6 hours ago, but I can´t stop thinking about that arrogant SOB´s vile statement: "Those aren´t real people." I´m a non-violent woman, just a few years younger than that bastard, but I think I would´ve gone totally ape-shit on him for saying that. Thanks for calling him out.

You did nothing wrong this person is a public person that works for us sharing your opinion with this person is perfectly fine Way to go

You have more courage than many of our public servants. Thank you for popping Oz's MAGA bubble for just a moment so he can hear some truth.

Don’t tell him but a lot of people are saying that servers and chef’s keep spitting in his food. Flight attendants too.

If he didn't want people accusing him of making healthcare for Americans massively worse, he could just stop making healthcare for Americans massively worse. Seems like a him problem.

Thanks so much for your service to the planet. BTW, I'm sure that vile wad of fornication Oz would just deny saying what he said, but we know it's utterly in keeping with their motto: "The Cruelty is the Point."

That quote should follow him for the rest of his life, “Those aren’t REAL people, they’re illegal aliens!” What a pig.

Are you willing to repeat that “they’re not real people, they’re illegal aliens” under oath in a hearing. That is incredibly damning.

Many of those people have “catastrophic” individual policies. Those policies exist in case of emergency and have affordable premiums because the deductible is so high.

Holy crap!!! Also, I was born here. My parents were born here. Their parents were born here. Etc. I am disabled from long covid and probably would not have healthcare if I were not in California.

As if every person they wrongfully kick off will just keep quiet about it. (Also, you'd think he'd be a little more suspicious of the govt's ability to determine who is undocumented and who is given their Nevada voter list debacle).

I mean, "we found over 15,000 non-citizens on the Nevada voter rolls" followed by, "Okay maybe not 15,000, but these 185 are definitely 100% not citizens." finished off with, "Ok, so maybe those 185 are all citizens, but we know there are non-citizens voting."

Assholes like Oz just dream up with these narratives with which to antagonize and instil fear in those who cannot think for themselves. Collective fear stimulates herd instinct and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. It’s the MAGA brainwashing formula.

besides the obvious dehumanization - the people they kick of insurance for being too healthy are illegal aliens now? they didn't come up with this yet, or did i miss it? and how would they even know.

The issue is he, and most of the Administration, doesn’t view minorities as human beings. I am still astonished by the number of sociopaths running the country.

“They aren’t real people.” That tells you all you need to know about them all. Also - how has he not been stripped of his medical license???

With a name like that he should know better and somehow doesn't. Like I understand when Douglass McWhitey doesn't get it but Mehmet Oz? Come on dude.

He fell off that wagon when he started a tv show hawking fake wellness products with the imprimatur of medical legitimacy. Dr Oz is a garbage human.

(Oz whispers to you in a “Sixth Sense” tone): “All I see are illegals.” 🙄 The 🤡 has no clue. The only thing they saw were people who signed up with no experience / utilization. If you’re healthy, you don’t use it, but you still buy it to insure against the unknown, as the Law REQUIRES!!! Dolts

Hmmmm. These people are empty,there is nothing to them.Not a shred of human decency in them.They have no idea how to be real people. They exist in a realty that has nothing of what can make humanity wonderful. Animals are better'real people' than these husks.

That, and he "thinks" it's some "Somali daycare racket in MN" scam, not wanting to admit that in this country, we don't prosecute Medicare fraudsters -- we make them governor then senator from Florida.

This is how fascism works. ‘Othering’ is quite real and deliberate and essential to the fascist project. And that project inevitably involves mass murder. The concentration camps opened in Germany early on, in ‘33, but the extermination programs started slowly, as various groups were dehumanized.

“They aren’t real people?” A lot of Trump supporters think the same thing about Dr. Oz, and would support him being marginalized or eliminated in a heartbeat. He’s not immune because he’s currently complicit with the regime.

Apart from what everyone else has already commented, this is wrong as a matter of black-letter law; providing documents sufficient to prove to citizenship or lawful presence is now and has always been one of the first requirements for ACA marketplace enrollment. It's effectively impossible for-

... someone in the country illegally to get enrolled - the number of things that would need to go wrong is pretty high, the penalties for getting caught would be huge, and it's just not worth it. Who is willing to commit a federal crime to get what's essentially a Costco membership?

Someone who doesn't file health insurance claims is the ideal customer for insurance companies. The illegal alien accusation is plain nuts. Does Oz have anything else in his repertoire?

This is also a real underwear gnomes theory of insurance fraud. So “illegal aliens” are 1. signing up for health insurance 2. Paying premiums 3. Not using the coverage 4. ???

Bravo!! Of course many people with health insurance never see a doctor in a calendar year or get a prescription fulled. When I was younger I went many years without either a doctor visit or a prescription medicine.

Good for you! I once saw Attorney General, John Ashcroft on a flight during his term in office. I so badly wanted to say something but I couldn't think of WHAT to say on the spot. You had your points in your brain and were able to pull the trigger!❤️❤️❤️

When my grandmother was in hospice, she would cry out, “The nurses aren’t giving me my meds the doctor prescribed.” Long story, short. My grandmother was being influenced by the Dr. Oz show and she was mad that nobody would get her the supplements he was hawking.

In his Oprah days, Oz’s public personna was upbeat and purposeful, if often wacky. This picture reveals him as the grumpy old man he always was, or has become under Trump. And we are the worse off for it.

As someone who is, at this very moment, recovering from a liver biopsy because -- despite never drinking, smoking, or drugging -- my liver is failing AND YET the healthcare which will determine how comfortably I will die within the next few years is in jeopardy: THANK YOU, AMI!!! BLESS YOU!!!

Snarl! So many on the list for a one way flight to Mars. One Stool and knee pads for the pigeons. Oops! Forgot the oXygen. Ketamine, Adderall or Coke Folks. Have a nice trip.

A white woman (Oz’s wife) produced his first television show (“Second Opinion with Dr. Oz”) in 2003. White Republican men helped Oz run for the Senate in Pennsylvania. A white man nominated Oz for the job heading CMS. White men confirmed him. But sure, blame the Black woman.

Where his logic fails is those "not real" people are paying the premiums (subsidized or not) for the insurance. If I sign up for a 1yr subscription to a meal delivery service but I never order food, the meal delivery company is happy to keep taking my money. So, why are insurance companies silent?

Oh, those guys: Insurance companies, benefit managers? They're terrified to be removed from a public single payer plan that more exactly provides care and sufficient compensation practitioners and hospitals rightly need and deserve.

Nothing like dehumanizing people. So according to Oz, all 760,000 people being kicked off Obamacare are “ illegal.” Nothing like a doctor who took the “hypocritical” oath.

Yes. American politicians get far too much respect from their citizens. The position they hold is what you respect. Make it their problem . Daily. Make it inescapable. Make them face themselves. Make them defend themselves. Constantly. Push. Push. Push. #Fascism

Eh. There are annoying maladies, and there are miserable maladies, and there are maladies that restrict your life. Diver fits all three. Not the worst sickness, but they you don't want them to die too quick, right? Let 'em suffer.

I can personally attest to many of my patients losing their Healthcare 🤬 And, yes, they're "real people"

I mean look it up Dr. “stupid” Oz. Illegal aliens cannot purchase ACA insurance. If that’s their actual counterpoint they know what they are doing and it is provider based fraud.

There's a real problem that Biden tried to solve too where unscrupulous brokers were signing up real people onto the ACA when the government was paying the full ride so that the brokers could profit and the signed up person wouldn't even know. That's worth solving. But this...

They're not illegal aliens and he knows it. He called it "fraud" before. And it's not fraud to sign up for a service and not use it. They want to kill Obamacare by kicking off all the healthy users who pay in but don't take out. Then the system gets overburdened so they can vote to repeal it

As a first generation American, himself, I find this statement disqualifying for anyone working for our government. Thank you for confronting him. I hope I’ll have the courage to do so if given the opportunity.

Never forget that Oz is a death cultist. During the Pandemic, Oz went on tv and announced that children should go back to school so their parents could go back to work, and his investments could improve. Millions of kids dead for his stock portfolio. These people are monsters

He looks so happy. Hurting millions of people while repeatedly saying they should have to work longer in order to help the deficit the administration he is working for is exacerbating with this illegal war and their tax cuts must make it hard to smile when you have to be amongst those same people.

Is he still dual citizen? Someone needs to explore the phenomenon of anti-immigration immigrants. Posobiec is the extreme example but there is Oz, Melania, etc. They essentially walked the same walk, so why would they think such awful things about fellow humans because of some papers irregularity?

Dr oz is absolutely most likely guilty of committing health insurance fraud because almost all health insurance fraud is committed by the doctor. No insurance company would ever kick someone off for paying their premiums and never submitting claims. That’s free fucking money.

MAGA like Oz think the country is some kind of medieval society,where we are governed by an inept king and people a just peasants to be exploited by the rich and powerful pedophiles. Give us all your money and if you die because you don’t have heath care so WHAT!!You are only here to serve the rich

Dr. Oz was and has always been a hack. From his phony TV show to his new role in the Trump administration. He's lazy and exploits the title Dr. to get rich. Period.

That man and everyone who was handpicked by that moron in charge needs to be held criminally accountable for everything they have done.

Sorry to post this here, but Oz is racist slime. He's a Turkish citizen who refuses to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide in Turkey and goes out of his way to vilify Armenians in the US.

Who is paying the premiums? Follow the money and it’s easy to see how owns the policy. What a stupid play this is on their part! Had I not had my annual physical a couple of weeks ago I wouldn’t have used mine this year so far either. 

Can you imagine the conversation among these dirtbags at a dinner? The level of self-assured stupidity as they wallow in the mud of racism and sexism and every other -ism that brings cold comfort to the scared and stupid. Oprah was not good for the country and culture.

Well, not like I said she did it all! And yep, considering Limbaugh and Gingrich and Fox News and on and on, she did not create the vicious nasty infantile atmosphere.

At some point there needs to be an investigation into what he and Dr Patrick Soon-Shiong (the South African billionaire owner of the LA Times) are doing flying around the country trying to “invest” in various regional medical providers. They’re getting the locals to do free work on spec and worse.

He’s gonna be a lot more humble when we deliver him to the Iranians for tgeir justice. Why waste our time with him here. Maybe they will let him pose next to the crane for a quick photo. Maybe not. Not my problem.

Great work confronting one of the worst charlatans in this administration! The people in this administration need to be shunned like the grifters and criminals they are. They should not be allowed in society.

Does he mean DACA?What noncitizens are getting Medicaid? R they relying on Ai like Doge did? I’ve gotten 2 letters this year saying my personal health data has been leaked yet again bc of my “unique” last name. Happened in Florida as well during Trump’s 1st term.It’s them allowing this ain’t it?🧐