Thank you Mary. It’s always the Scam. There’s not a one in this regime that aren’t a grifter or con…
Dr. Mehmet Oz has been under intense public and political scrutiny regarding his personal business "sideline deals" and potential conflicts of interest.
As head of CMS, Dr. Oz oversees a $1.5 to $1.7 trillion federal budget that influences private insurance, pharmaceutical companies, and digital health tech. The primary business deals, holdings, and related ethics controversies involving Dr. Oz during his tenure include:
* ZorroRX: A health benefits company co-founded by Dr. Oz and his son, Oliver Oz. The company functions as a telemedicine intermediary utilizing the federal 340B Drug Pricing Program. Healthcare experts flagged this as a direct conflict of interest, given that CMS heavily influences the regulation of federal prescription drug programs.
* Sharecare & CareLinx: Disclosures revealed Oz previously held up to a $26 million stake in Sharecare, a digital health company he co-founded. Sharecare operates CareLinx—an in-home care program heavily utilized as a supplemental benefit by Medicare Advantage enrollees.
* Private Health Insurers: Oz previously held up to $600,000 in UnitedHealth Group stock, alongside investments in CVS Health and Cigna. Because Dr. Oz heavily advocates for “expanding private Medicare Advantage plans” (and previously co-authored a proposal for "Medicare Advantage for All"), lawmakers have routinely questioned whether his policies inherently favor his former investment network.
* Pharmaceutical and Tech Giants: His portfolio historically featured substantial stakes in tech firms like Nvidia (up to $5 million) that build AI software for hospitals, alongside drug manufacturers like AbbVie.
Before taking office, Dr. Oz's financial disclosures revealed a personal net worth between $98 million and $332 million, heavily driven by media earnings and investments in health sectors regulated by his own agency. To secure his confirmation, he did sign a federal ethics pledge promising to divest from over 70 conflicting companies and health-related funds within 90 days of taking office and resign from paid advisory roles and corporate board seats (such as with the health retailer iHerb). Also, his intentions of recusing himself from policy matters directly impacting his former personal financial interests until divestment was finalized.
TJ, one wonders if Oz divested himself of anything, and even if he did, he still has contacts in all of those places and probably has more loyalty to them than to this nation, just like the rest of Trumplandia. WE almost got that jerk as our senator. Ugh!
Dr. Oz did divest himself the liquidation of his massive portfolio, which was estimated between $95 million and $334 million, proceeded along the required 90-day post-confirmation timeline.
Of course as you point out Ruth he still maintains so many contacts and we all know where his loyalty aligns with. It’s beyond obvious yet some just want to be as ignorant as bliss. That’s the problem. Find that is what is beyond comprehension these last twenty months.
Btw- Under Dr Oz’s approved OGE Ethics Agreement, he did not have to sell every single asset. He was allowed to retain interests that did not directly conflict with CMS oversight, including:
* A cattle ranch in Florida (Emerald Oaks).
* Passive residential real estate properties in Turkey.
* Personal Bitcoin investments
We all should be aware of what this Felon is doing to cattle ranches and that Bitcoin cryptocurrency. As for Turkey, it had a tariff of 25% in 2025, was overturned by SCOTUS. Now it’s 12.5% tariff rate after an administration review concluded it had not adequately prohibited the importation of goods made with forced labor. Guess something’s were discussed. The sewage of all these in this regime is staggering.
Yea you almost did get him as your states Senator. Live in another state but helped Fetterman in 2022. What a disappointment he has turned out to be. Yet he is better than Oz… but not better than who had hoped would have won the Dem ticket, Connor Lamb. Stay safe and healthy as we all go Voting…
T.J., but as you say, Oz divested, but essentially lost nothing. He sacrificed nothing really. He has the money and can put it back into anything he wants while he pretends to care about the health of the American people when he clearly does not.
I, too am so disappointed with Fetterman. I voted for Lamb in the primaries, but Fetterman had a bigger budget and won. I suspect he will defect to the Republicans if Democrats win the Senate in Nov. That is what most expect.
Ruth yep Oz never lost a dang thing. Didn’t sacrifice, loose a dime but has gained. Maybe find him even more grotesque than others because he is actually a physician and took that Hippocratic oath of “first, do no harm”..
As for Fetterman defecting he already said as much calling himself a “lifelong republican” just a few days ago.
Green Coffee Bean Extract: In 2012, Dr. Oz touted green coffee bean extract as a "miracle" weight-loss fix.
Congressional Hearing: In 2014, Senator Claire McCaskill publicly scolded Dr. Oz during a Senate consumer protection hearing regarding false and deceptive advertising, noting that his hyperbolic language ["flowery" language] emboldened unscrupulous companies to fleece vulnerable consumers.
Medical Community Backlash: A study published in the British Medical Journal cited by critics noted that a significant portion of recommendations featured on daytime medical talk shows lacked robust scientific backing or peer-reviewed evidence. Over 1,000 physicians signed a letter in 2015 calling him a charlatan and questioning his faculty position at Columbia University.
Patty, I think Trump got a lot of "help" in his second election by our AIers, most likely Musk because Trump so vociferously thanked him and his computers. Trump didn't even win 50% of the votes and just happened to win each election in the swing states by nearly the same percentage along with Republican candidates who were either not well-known or not known at all (McCormick in PA who is really from CT, a rich hedgefunder, for example). We are going to have to be really vigilant this election because we now know for sure that there is no low to which Trumplandia won't go, to win or rather keep control of our Congress. We need Republicans of Trumplandia out of office!
Leigh - she thought our end would be an outcome of war.
I don’t think she, or most of us, realized it would be a combo of stacking the Supreme Court, stripping healthcare and support programs, alienating our allies, grifting to benefit his family and billionaires, ignoring climate change, destroying the economy -
In reality, it’s even worse. Because the price of Enbrel, for example, will be heavily borne by the consumer in the US. Even for those with so called health insurance, it won’t be part of the tiny formularies that US insurance companies use to avoid paying for more expensive drugs.
And if, in their infinite kindness, they deign to cover an off formulary drug, it will be at a much higher copay than the drugs on the formulary.
That’s not how it works in countries with national healthcare. If it’s covered, it’s covered.
An example from my own experience. I have asthma. And to lessen the frequency and severity of episodes, I take a drug called Symbicort. It’s a combination of two different corticosteroids that act within the lungs to make them less reactive to irritants.
You inhale one dose, twice a day. There are 120 doses per inhaler.
In the US, the last time I checked, the retail price was over $500.
My copay was $200, or $100 a month. It was, of course, off formulary.
I now live in Italy, and am covered by national healthcare insurance that I pay for. It costs less than Medicare Part B.
The retail price here for Symbicort is about €45. I pay a little over €3 for a 2 month supply.
Once your uncle becomes toothless with D majorities in both houses, or dies from his many illnesses, the US must become serious about nationalizing healthcare.
People have been dying from being medically mismanaged due to cost for much too long.
I like that phrase, "prove it." I suggest that anytime your uncle or similar lying sacks of sh*t say anything at a public gathering, we all chant "PROVE IT" until they surrender the mike and scuttle offstage like the cockroaches they are.
Negotiating so that other countries are paying more. I always feel better when I know other people are being screwed over as much as I am. It's like a warm hug.
Then there's Dr. Oz and his 'doctors will be able to see more patients ' Has he been to a doctor's office, other than the one in his home, lately? They're mostly like an assembly line.
How have we come to this?*
Feel free to use in the many applicable Trump topics
My first thought was also that I'm already being rushed through a process that barely touches on my actual health. Doctors are over scheduled and barely know their patients.
I always knew healthcare was a scam. I worked in the insurance industry for 30 years as an underwriter and later a compliance officer who filed state insurance forms. Beginning in the mid 90s I was being asked to include language that violated state laws.
Insurance companies know the chances of getting caught are slim because insurance departments are critically understaffed and basically rubber stampers. Companies do get caught but it is most often after decades of cheating where they have made millions from denying a particular claim. Then someone gets a competent lawyer who looks up the law----the insurance company is caught and the state levies a fine that is usually in the hundreds of thousands, rarely in the millions.
And if they get caught early do you think senior management pays the price? No, its the compliance officer who let the "mistake" slip though.
In one case I went into a senior vice president's office and showed him the state law. He told me to get the F out of his office and file the form or pack up my desk. Six months later I did, and went from making $100k per year to making $10.50 per hour as a clerk.
Insurance companies---every single one without exception--are crooks. I worked for six over my thirty year career.
Have thought for a while that we’re systematically being denied healthcare via multiple social programs being cut or eliminated. Those programs were available to the underserved and seniors in particular. We’re considered a drag on the healthcare system and the overall economy and we’re easily disposed of. Prove me wrong.
Unfortunately MAGA voters only see what he says is good, good , good. They don't read or understand what he's claiming. Goes the same way with his cabinet/staff - "I hire a lot of women". Eventually he fires them or forces them to quit, saving the ones who are "loyal" to him in one way or another. He's put one over on a lot of things, leaving those red states standing there, wondering when the money is going to start flooding in to them.
The ridiculous Trumpian drug price cuts help no one, well, maybe the folks who already can afford whatever they need. The rest of the people still get slammed by those who already have far far too much. It is one of the games Donald Trump and his Klan play, thinking people will believe the BS. Well, some do because they don't know what to compare the prices to and are desperate if they have a condition treated by one of those drugs. And, 32 is all they could manage! Where is Congress in all this scamming? Oh yes, they participate, just as one would expect from Republicans and a couple of Democrats (Republican Light) who are only in office to get what they can from their time in office. Those folks all need to be voted out and folks who actually care need to be voted in!
Now the Part D Programs are being ELIMINATED in your state..or DOUBLED YET AGAIN!!
My circumstance...same medications..same address. Medicare.
Aetna Part D...2022-2024 (under Biden)..$12.40 month.. $148.80 a year
Aetna Part D...2025 (under trump) $24.60 month..$295.20 year
Aetna Part D...2026...$91.60 month..$1099.20 a year.
Aetna Part D...2027...NO LONGER OFFERED in my state with NO advance NOTICE!!
Every other Part D offering is starting at over $160.00 a month..or $1920 a year!!!!
WHERE DO THEY THINK a person who worked for 40 years and is now over 65 and living off their Social Security can come up with Health Care costs when they MOST NEED IT!!
IT IS JUST CRUEL!!!
So I don't want to hear how trumpRX OR Dr Oz give a shit about anybody other than themselves!!
oh, but aren't you thrilled that donald is going to give you $90 because he cares so much about the health of Americans? of course, we can expect our Medicare premiums to go up again and the taxpayers to fork over the $90--taking out of their own pocket and then giving it back to them.
Thank you Mary. It’s always the Scam. There’s not a one in this regime that aren’t a grifter or con…
Dr. Mehmet Oz has been under intense public and political scrutiny regarding his personal business "sideline deals" and potential conflicts of interest.
As head of CMS, Dr. Oz oversees a $1.5 to $1.7 trillion federal budget that influences private insurance, pharmaceutical companies, and digital health tech. The primary business deals, holdings, and related ethics controversies involving Dr. Oz during his tenure include:
* ZorroRX: A health benefits company co-founded by Dr. Oz and his son, Oliver Oz. The company functions as a telemedicine intermediary utilizing the federal 340B Drug Pricing Program. Healthcare experts flagged this as a direct conflict of interest, given that CMS heavily influences the regulation of federal prescription drug programs.
* Sharecare & CareLinx: Disclosures revealed Oz previously held up to a $26 million stake in Sharecare, a digital health company he co-founded. Sharecare operates CareLinx—an in-home care program heavily utilized as a supplemental benefit by Medicare Advantage enrollees.
* Private Health Insurers: Oz previously held up to $600,000 in UnitedHealth Group stock, alongside investments in CVS Health and Cigna. Because Dr. Oz heavily advocates for “expanding private Medicare Advantage plans” (and previously co-authored a proposal for "Medicare Advantage for All"), lawmakers have routinely questioned whether his policies inherently favor his former investment network.
* Pharmaceutical and Tech Giants: His portfolio historically featured substantial stakes in tech firms like Nvidia (up to $5 million) that build AI software for hospitals, alongside drug manufacturers like AbbVie.
Before taking office, Dr. Oz's financial disclosures revealed a personal net worth between $98 million and $332 million, heavily driven by media earnings and investments in health sectors regulated by his own agency. To secure his confirmation, he did sign a federal ethics pledge promising to divest from over 70 conflicting companies and health-related funds within 90 days of taking office and resign from paid advisory roles and corporate board seats (such as with the health retailer iHerb). Also, his intentions of recusing himself from policy matters directly impacting his former personal financial interests until divestment was finalized.
TJ, one wonders if Oz divested himself of anything, and even if he did, he still has contacts in all of those places and probably has more loyalty to them than to this nation, just like the rest of Trumplandia. WE almost got that jerk as our senator. Ugh!
Dr. Oz did divest himself the liquidation of his massive portfolio, which was estimated between $95 million and $334 million, proceeded along the required 90-day post-confirmation timeline.
Of course as you point out Ruth he still maintains so many contacts and we all know where his loyalty aligns with. It’s beyond obvious yet some just want to be as ignorant as bliss. That’s the problem. Find that is what is beyond comprehension these last twenty months.
Btw- Under Dr Oz’s approved OGE Ethics Agreement, he did not have to sell every single asset. He was allowed to retain interests that did not directly conflict with CMS oversight, including:
* A cattle ranch in Florida (Emerald Oaks).
* Passive residential real estate properties in Turkey.
* Personal Bitcoin investments
We all should be aware of what this Felon is doing to cattle ranches and that Bitcoin cryptocurrency. As for Turkey, it had a tariff of 25% in 2025, was overturned by SCOTUS. Now it’s 12.5% tariff rate after an administration review concluded it had not adequately prohibited the importation of goods made with forced labor. Guess something’s were discussed. The sewage of all these in this regime is staggering.
Yea you almost did get him as your states Senator. Live in another state but helped Fetterman in 2022. What a disappointment he has turned out to be. Yet he is better than Oz… but not better than who had hoped would have won the Dem ticket, Connor Lamb. Stay safe and healthy as we all go Voting…
T.J., but as you say, Oz divested, but essentially lost nothing. He sacrificed nothing really. He has the money and can put it back into anything he wants while he pretends to care about the health of the American people when he clearly does not.
I, too am so disappointed with Fetterman. I voted for Lamb in the primaries, but Fetterman had a bigger budget and won. I suspect he will defect to the Republicans if Democrats win the Senate in Nov. That is what most expect.
Ruth yep Oz never lost a dang thing. Didn’t sacrifice, loose a dime but has gained. Maybe find him even more grotesque than others because he is actually a physician and took that Hippocratic oath of “first, do no harm”..
As for Fetterman defecting he already said as much calling himself a “lifelong republican” just a few days ago.
Carl here is just three Dr Oz scams
Green Coffee Bean Extract: In 2012, Dr. Oz touted green coffee bean extract as a "miracle" weight-loss fix.
Congressional Hearing: In 2014, Senator Claire McCaskill publicly scolded Dr. Oz during a Senate consumer protection hearing regarding false and deceptive advertising, noting that his hyperbolic language ["flowery" language] emboldened unscrupulous companies to fleece vulnerable consumers.
Medical Community Backlash: A study published in the British Medical Journal cited by critics noted that a significant portion of recommendations featured on daytime medical talk shows lacked robust scientific backing or peer-reviewed evidence. Over 1,000 physicians signed a letter in 2015 calling him a charlatan and questioning his faculty position at Columbia University.
Interesting, I'm trying to read all of this ... I guess he was a known scammer many years ago ...
Dr Oz has always been a charlatan - is he even a qualified Dr? Most probably got his degree from the back of a cornflakes box!!! 😂
When he was first elected, one of my friends said “He’s going to get us all killed.”
Little did we know he’d have a second term. Her words were prescient.
Patty, I think Trump got a lot of "help" in his second election by our AIers, most likely Musk because Trump so vociferously thanked him and his computers. Trump didn't even win 50% of the votes and just happened to win each election in the swing states by nearly the same percentage along with Republican candidates who were either not well-known or not known at all (McCormick in PA who is really from CT, a rich hedgefunder, for example). We are going to have to be really vigilant this election because we now know for sure that there is no low to which Trumplandia won't go, to win or rather keep control of our Congress. We need Republicans of Trumplandia out of office!
Here's hoping she didn't mean that literally. And that he doesn't.
Leigh - she thought our end would be an outcome of war.
I don’t think she, or most of us, realized it would be a combo of stacking the Supreme Court, stripping healthcare and support programs, alienating our allies, grifting to benefit his family and billionaires, ignoring climate change, destroying the economy -
He is working on all fronts to achieve this goal.
Agreed in all points.
In reality, it’s even worse. Because the price of Enbrel, for example, will be heavily borne by the consumer in the US. Even for those with so called health insurance, it won’t be part of the tiny formularies that US insurance companies use to avoid paying for more expensive drugs.
And if, in their infinite kindness, they deign to cover an off formulary drug, it will be at a much higher copay than the drugs on the formulary.
That’s not how it works in countries with national healthcare. If it’s covered, it’s covered.
An example from my own experience. I have asthma. And to lessen the frequency and severity of episodes, I take a drug called Symbicort. It’s a combination of two different corticosteroids that act within the lungs to make them less reactive to irritants.
You inhale one dose, twice a day. There are 120 doses per inhaler.
In the US, the last time I checked, the retail price was over $500.
My copay was $200, or $100 a month. It was, of course, off formulary.
I now live in Italy, and am covered by national healthcare insurance that I pay for. It costs less than Medicare Part B.
The retail price here for Symbicort is about €45. I pay a little over €3 for a 2 month supply.
Once your uncle becomes toothless with D majorities in both houses, or dies from his many illnesses, the US must become serious about nationalizing healthcare.
People have been dying from being medically mismanaged due to cost for much too long.
I like that phrase, "prove it." I suggest that anytime your uncle or similar lying sacks of sh*t say anything at a public gathering, we all chant "PROVE IT" until they surrender the mike and scuttle offstage like the cockroaches they are.
shameless corporate thieves...
thank you Mary Trump.
Love from London :)
Namaste
Negotiating so that other countries are paying more. I always feel better when I know other people are being screwed over as much as I am. It's like a warm hug.
Then there's Dr. Oz and his 'doctors will be able to see more patients ' Has he been to a doctor's office, other than the one in his home, lately? They're mostly like an assembly line.
How have we come to this?*
Feel free to use in the many applicable Trump topics
My first thought was also that I'm already being rushed through a process that barely touches on my actual health. Doctors are over scheduled and barely know their patients.
I always knew healthcare was a scam. I worked in the insurance industry for 30 years as an underwriter and later a compliance officer who filed state insurance forms. Beginning in the mid 90s I was being asked to include language that violated state laws.
Insurance companies know the chances of getting caught are slim because insurance departments are critically understaffed and basically rubber stampers. Companies do get caught but it is most often after decades of cheating where they have made millions from denying a particular claim. Then someone gets a competent lawyer who looks up the law----the insurance company is caught and the state levies a fine that is usually in the hundreds of thousands, rarely in the millions.
And if they get caught early do you think senior management pays the price? No, its the compliance officer who let the "mistake" slip though.
In one case I went into a senior vice president's office and showed him the state law. He told me to get the F out of his office and file the form or pack up my desk. Six months later I did, and went from making $100k per year to making $10.50 per hour as a clerk.
Insurance companies---every single one without exception--are crooks. I worked for six over my thirty year career.
Loved the video, Mary ❤️
What an absolute embarrassment he is, especially when he takes his particular brand of idiocy on an international tour.
Have thought for a while that we’re systematically being denied healthcare via multiple social programs being cut or eliminated. Those programs were available to the underserved and seniors in particular. We’re considered a drag on the healthcare system and the overall economy and we’re easily disposed of. Prove me wrong.
Unfortunately MAGA voters only see what he says is good, good , good. They don't read or understand what he's claiming. Goes the same way with his cabinet/staff - "I hire a lot of women". Eventually he fires them or forces them to quit, saving the ones who are "loyal" to him in one way or another. He's put one over on a lot of things, leaving those red states standing there, wondering when the money is going to start flooding in to them.
The ridiculous Trumpian drug price cuts help no one, well, maybe the folks who already can afford whatever they need. The rest of the people still get slammed by those who already have far far too much. It is one of the games Donald Trump and his Klan play, thinking people will believe the BS. Well, some do because they don't know what to compare the prices to and are desperate if they have a condition treated by one of those drugs. And, 32 is all they could manage! Where is Congress in all this scamming? Oh yes, they participate, just as one would expect from Republicans and a couple of Democrats (Republican Light) who are only in office to get what they can from their time in office. Those folks all need to be voted out and folks who actually care need to be voted in!
Oz wants old people and sick people to die, because although he hasn't said it in so many words....yet....he considers us "useless eaters."
Dr. Sham Wow scams well.
Last paragraph is sobering and powerful. Keep on speaking truth to power, Mary, in a way we can all understand. You’re the best. 😍
You are correct on every count!
Under trump...
Medicare Part D costs DOUBLED in 2025..
QUADRUPLED in 2026...
Now the Part D Programs are being ELIMINATED in your state..or DOUBLED YET AGAIN!!
My circumstance...same medications..same address. Medicare.
Aetna Part D...2022-2024 (under Biden)..$12.40 month.. $148.80 a year
Aetna Part D...2025 (under trump) $24.60 month..$295.20 year
Aetna Part D...2026...$91.60 month..$1099.20 a year.
Aetna Part D...2027...NO LONGER OFFERED in my state with NO advance NOTICE!!
Every other Part D offering is starting at over $160.00 a month..or $1920 a year!!!!
WHERE DO THEY THINK a person who worked for 40 years and is now over 65 and living off their Social Security can come up with Health Care costs when they MOST NEED IT!!
IT IS JUST CRUEL!!!
So I don't want to hear how trumpRX OR Dr Oz give a shit about anybody other than themselves!!
oh, but aren't you thrilled that donald is going to give you $90 because he cares so much about the health of Americans? of course, we can expect our Medicare premiums to go up again and the taxpayers to fork over the $90--taking out of their own pocket and then giving it back to them.