{"id":66028,"date":"2025-05-31T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marinresists.com\/?p=66028"},"modified":"2025-05-31T21:04:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T04:04:33","slug":"dr-oz-on-the-future-of-medicaid-trumps-megabill-and-ai-avatar-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marinresists.com\/?p=66028","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Oz on the future of Medicaid, Trump\u2019s Megabill and AI-avatar health care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Mehmet Oz, former TV host and Pennsylvania Senate candidate, is one of America\u2019s most famous physicians. Now he\u2019s running the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which means he\u2019s in charge of programs that provide health care for about half of all Americans. He sits down with White House Bureau Chief Dasha Burns to discuss potential Medicaid cuts, his big plans to lower drug pricing, why he\u2019s fielding early morning phone calls from President Donald Trump, and his advice to patients to \u201cbe curious\u201d about their health.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, Burns is joined by senior political columnist and politics bureau chief Jonathan Martin to discuss his juicy column about the Ohio governor\u2019s race featuring Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy and former Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel. And senior legal affairs reporter Kyle Cheney joins to discuss the showdown between Trump and the courts over his \u201cLiberation Day\u201d tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>Listen and subscribe to <i>The Conversation with Dasha Burns<\/i> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/politico\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/au\/podcast\/the-conversation-with-dasha-burns\/id1111319839\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0YmkWN5cyxuqBh5Vl78yGp\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify<\/a> or wherever you get your podcasts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Mehmet Oz, former TV host and Pennsylvania Senate candidate, is one of America\u2019s most&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dr. Oz on the future of Medicaid, Trump\u2019s Megabill and AI-avatar health care - Marin &amp; 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