Dr Mehmet Oz - Mehmet is a distorted spelling of Mohammad to avoid being recognized as a Muslim in white-christian-dominated America - is the administrator of the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMSS), and got himself in a bit of a tangle trying to defend his Moron-in-Chief boss's rhetoric on drug prices.
Appearing on Meet the Press, the former daytime TV personality was invited to watch a montage of Trump making wildly inflated promises on the percentage by which his administration planned to cut the cost of pharmaceuticals, which rose from 1,200 percent to 1,500 percent depending on which press event the president was speaking at.
“Cutting drug prices by 400 percent, anything over 100 percent, wouldn’t that effectively make them free? Is that a realistic goal from the president?” was the question to the Muslim Turkish immigrant, Dr Wizard of Oz.
Strictly speaking, cutting prices by 100 percent would make them free, and any reduction beyond that would put the seller in the nonsensical position of having to pay people to take their product.
Mohammad's response would have him fail not only the SAT test, the but also in the medical USMLE test for which he should be stripped of his license: “The president does the calculation by saying, ‘OK, if a drug was $100 and you reduce it to $50, it’s 100 percent cheaper because you’re taking $50 off and left with only $50, so the amount you took off the price is equal to the amount that’s left. They’re equal so it’s 100 percent.’” This is so stupid and mathematically wrong. Imagine some one in charge of medical services who does not understand percentage calculations.
In fact, reducing a $100 item to $50 would mean it is only 50 percent cheaper.
When pressed that Trump has boasted about reducing drug prices by up to 1,500 percent. His answer smells of rotten Turkish kebabs in Istanbul: “Well, if you take a drug that is $200 or $240 like we did last week and reduce it to $10, those are the numbers you’re talking about,” Oz answered, only intensifying the atmosphere of confusion.
The physician struggled with precisely the same calculation at a White House press conference on October 16, held to promote a new deal on fertility drugs, when he said at one stage in his address: “You’ll notice, President Trump, these are discounted from $242 to $10", blurting his insane ignorance with, “I don’t know what the math is on that. We can’t even calculate it. It’s too high to calculate.” A reduction from $242 to $10 is 95.87 percent.
Trump was previously accused of engaging in “MAGA math” earlier this year, when a clip of him bragging about bringing down drug prices by 1,400 and 1,500 percent was amended with a Community Note on X that read: “Misleading news. If you reduce price by 100 percent, price becomes zero.”
The note offered a simple example of a 100 percent discount on a $10 book, bringing its price to zero, and linked to a website offering an easy guide to calculating discounts.
Meanwhile, "Dr." Moahmmad Oz, the Turkish Muslim administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said Wednesday that Donald Dumb has a plan to replace President Obama's very popular Affordable Care Act — but provided no specifics about the proposal.
“I fully believe the president has a plan,” Oz enthusiastically said on “Meet the Press, "We’ve been talking about it quite a bit. There’s all kinds of ideas.” When pressed for specifics about Trump’s plan, Oz said, “The plans that were originally offered during the One Big Beautiful Bill fell out, which is fine.”
Donald Dumb hates Obama, the first and brilliant African American president of the US. Out of spite and disgruntlement over the fact that a Black African ruled the US for 8 years, Donald Dumb has hollered and raged and vowed to repeal and replace the ACA, also known as Obamacare, both during his first term and again on the 2024 campaign trail. But he never proposed anything of substance on how to do this. What does the Dumb asshole want to replace the ACA with, no one knows. And his current administration has yet to provide details about what any new plan would be like or how it would affect people who rely on the law for coverage.
More than 24 million people got coverage through the ACA in 2025, according to government data. Oz’s comments come as ACA open enrollment begins Nov. 1, with experts warning that next year’s premium hikes will be the largest since the health care law took effect.
Those ACA subsidies are at the heart of a political standoff in Washington, with Democrats saying they won’t provide the votes to reopen the government until they’re extended. Without the subsidies, average out-of-pocket premium payments are expected to double, from $888 a year to $1,904. The Congressional Budget Office projects that nearly 4 million will drop their coverage if the subsidies aren’t extended. All polling shows an overwhelming support, including among Donald Dumb's own MAGA base, for keeping the Obama care tax credits.
But hatred and racism drive Donald Dumb and his coterie of vulgar and ignorant sycophants: They will keep talking negatively about Obamacare till the day they die because they are on the payroll of criminal insurance companies, but they don't have the political courage to admit their failure and the success of President Barack Obama's signature law.
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