CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz holds White House press briefing — 6/2/2026
What this video covers
CNBC Television’s full posting of Dr. Mehmet Oz’s June 2, 2026 White House press briefing, the CMS administrator’s set-piece presentation of the administration’s health agenda. Oz announces $50-a-month GLP-1 weight-loss drugs for eligible Medicare beneficiaries, a major TrumpRx.gov expansion, and a multi-state fraud crackdown, then takes questions for roughly half an hour. Topics in the Q&A include the Medicaid work-requirement rule issued the previous day, alleged improper enrollment in the ACA exchanges and Medicaid, Ebola surveillance ahead of the World Cup, and President Trump’s health.
Key points
- Oz says the 17 largest pharmaceutical companies, covering over 80% of the branded-drug business, agreed to most-favored-nation pricing, and he cites a Council of Economic Advisers estimate of $600 billion in savings over the next decade.
- Oz announces 160 additional drugs on TrumpRx.gov — past 750 total, covering four of five medications Americans pick up — and says the transparency site has had about 12 million unique visitors with an estimated $500 million saved.
- From July 1, Oz says, eligible Medicare beneficiaries can get GLP-1 products for $50 a month instead of list prices above $1,000; asked whether the discounted drugs are genuine, he says they are the brand-name products from Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly.
- On fraud, Oz says CMS deferred $350 million in payments to Minnesota after an autism-services takedown he calls the largest ever, suspended payments to about 850 California hospices, and is chasing operators who he says moved on to Nevada, Arizona, Texas, and California home health.
- Oz promotes the new Medicaid work-requirement rule — work, volunteer, or study 20 hours a week — as a “path to prosperity,” crediting the working families tax cut legislation with avoiding a projected $5.4 trillion in additional Medicaid spending over a decade.
- Oz claims about 35% of people on the ACA exchanges may never have used their coverage and may not be legitimately enrolled, and says the amount of federal money found going to people in the country illegally has doubled to about $2 billion; he also refuses to rule out extending the moratorium on new suppliers in fraud-prone sectors.
- On Trump’s repeated checkups, Oz calls the results “spectacular” and says the president “likes the results”; on Ebola, he credits NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya with running surveillance and airport testing preparations.