Dr. Oz and Dr. Makary Are About to Reset America’s Broken Healthcare System

The MAHA report blew the whistle—now they’re stepping in to clean up the mess from the inside.

America’s healthcare system is collapsing and hemorrhaging billions—and two of the country’s top health officials are coming in to stop the bleeding.

At the heart of the crisis are two programs: Medicare and Medicaid.

But as Dr. Mehmet Oz, the new Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, explained in a recent address, these safety nets have become ripe for abuse.

Oz pulled back the curtain on one of the biggest schemes taxpayers have never heard of.

“The fraud, waste and abuse is in three different categories,” he said.

“The fraud, which, by the way, we find quite a bit of. There's about $14 billion we've identified with DOGE of folks who are duly enrolled, wrongly, in multiple states for Medicaid.”

The scam sounds almost too simple to be real.

A person moves from New Jersey to Pennsylvania, for example, but never officially updates their enrollment.

As a result, both states bill the federal government for that one person’s Medicaid coverage. And no one catches it.

“Yeah, you live in New Jersey but you moved to Pennsylvania and, you know, which state gets your Medicaid? Turns out both states collect money from the federal government.”

It’s not limited to state lines. According to Oz, many people are simultaneously enrolled in Medicaid and in subsidized insurance exchanges—something that should never happen.

“A lot of times within a state you'll have someone on Medicaid and in the exchanges, again $14 billion just in that regard alone.”

But Oz didn’t just sound the alarm—he issued a declaration, which bleeds into America’s illegal alien problem.

“The buck stops here.”

That phrase is now the rallying cry behind a nationwide crackdown on fraud and waste.

And it’s raising difficult questions about fairness, especially when it comes to illegal immigration.

“We’re not paying $200 million for housekeeping anymore a year, we’re not going to pay for illegal immigrants in states that are submitting those claims,” he said.

He challenged the morality—and the math—behind making taxpayers in Republican states like Mississippi, Texas, or Florida subsidize the healthcare of undocumented migrants in places like California.

“Why should people living in Mississippi, Texas or Florida be paying for illegal immigrants getting health care in California?”

Oz stressed that cleaning up the system isn’t just a fiscal imperative—it’s a national responsibility.

“As a nation, we need to be in line to make this work.”

While Dr. Oz tackled the administrative rot in the system, FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary turned his focus to the cultural one.

For decades, he argued, medicine in America has prioritized treatment over prevention, paperwork over health.

"The modern medical establishment really has been disconnected,” Makary said.

“We've been so busy focusing on treatment, on billing and coding and a high throughput model."

Makary’s solution isn’t another pill—it’s a complete rethinking of how we approach wellness in the first place.

“We've got to stop and ask ourselves should we be focusing more on school lunch programs, not just putting every kid on Ozempic?” he said.

“We've got to talk about food as medicine and gut health and the microbiome. We've got to talk about environmental toxins that cause cancer not just the chemo to treat it.”

And perhaps most radically: “Maybe we need to treat more diabetes with cooking classes, not just throwing insulin at people.”

That kind of thinking, he said, is at the heart of the newly released MAHA report—short for Make America Healthy Again.

It’s a federal roadmap to reverse the nation’s health crisis, not just patch it.

"This report is a fresh new approach that really calls for a transformation of our healthcare system from a reactionary system to a proactive system,” he said. “So I could not be more excited about this report.”

At its core, the MAHA report argues that the real solution isn’t spending more money. It’s spending smarter.

"And when we talk about payment reform, we're really talking about how we fund our broken healthcare system,” Makary explained.

Instead of throwing dollars at downstream treatments, the report focuses on root causes: poor diet, environmental toxins, sedentary lifestyles, and lack of education.

“This report talks about how we fix our broken healthcare system, by getting at the root causes and the ultimate issue that we've not been talking about, and that is the health of the population.”

That’s especially urgent, he said, when nearly half of American children are already battling chronic disease.

"When you have 40% of our nation's children with a chronic disease, that portends a very expensive system.”

But the good news, according to Makary, is that the damage isn’t irreversible.

“We can address it,” he said.

“There are many things we can do even at the FDA addressing food, which many people forget is the first letter of the FDA is food. It's not just drugs.”

The mission now is clear: Stop the fraud, rethink the system, and finally make health—not bureaucracy—the priority.

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