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Oz Rejects the Claim That the Fraud Crackdown Is Politically Motivated on My View with Lara Trump

May 16, 2026 · Fox News · 0:10:27

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What happened

Mehmet Oz, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, appeared on Fox News’s My View with Lara Trump in a segment Fox News published on May 16, 2026 under the headline “Dr Oz: If they’ll steal your MONEY, they’ll steal your HEALTH.” According to Fox News’s description of the segment, Oz rejected the notion that his agency’s health-care fraud crackdown is politically motivated.

Why it matters

The political-motivation charge is the standing criticism of the CMS fraud campaign, and this segment is Oz’s on-record answer to it in the spring of 2026 — the defense he was making between the campaign’s first-year enforcement announcements and the larger ACA enrollment actions that followed in September. This chronicle carries the criticism and the answer side by side.

Sources: Fox News, “Dr Oz: If they’ll steal your MONEY, they’ll steal your HEALTH,” My View with Lara Trump segment published May 16, 2026 (embedded above). Characterizations as stated by Fox News’s segment title and description.