Dr. Oz Delivers White House Press Briefing | Full Remarks & Q&A (June 2, 2026)
What this video covers
DC Briefing Room carries CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz’s June 2, 2026 White House press briefing uncut — his prepared remarks plus the full question-and-answer session. Oz’s announcements cover TrumpRx.gov, $50-a-month Medicare GLP-1 drugs, and an aggressive fraud-enforcement push; the Q&A is wide-ranging and sometimes combative, touching vaccine mandates, pharmaceutical reshoring, Medicaid technology, and repeated questions about the acting DNI nominee that Oz declines to engage.
Key points
- Oz argues the most-favored-nation drug-pricing deals must be codified by Congress because the contracts expire with the administration; he points to the “Great Healthcare Plan” as the vehicle, alongside PBM reform and plain-English insurance policies.
- Asked about COVID-era vaccine mandates, Oz says it is “an embarrassment that during COVID we allowed ideology and fear to dictate healthcare policy,” and argues for “gold standard science” so parents and states, not Washington, make those decisions.
- Oz declines to rule out extending the moratorium on new hospice, equipment, and personal-care suppliers beyond six months, saying growth in those sectors will stay slowed until CMS gets “our arms around the problem” — while crediting industry whistleblowers as CMS’s most important source of fraud tips.
- Challenged on why personal-care attendant is now the most common job in California and New York, Oz contrasts a hernia operation — licensed surgeon, inspected facility, a scar to prove it — with an unlicensed attendant in an unmonitored home setting: “a lot of handshakes and finger crossing.”
- Oz says Medicare’s billing system still runs on a 1979-era COBOL platform, that CMS is adding $200 million for Medicaid technology infrastructure, and that vendors have pledged $600 million in in-kind contributions to make work-requirement verification function.
- On pharmaceutical reshoring, Oz says the 17 companies that signed pricing deals are already investing in US plants — he cites a ribbon cutting in Charlottesville and a facility he toured with the president near Cincinnati — and predicts a “brain drain from Europe” of drugmakers.
- Oz says CMS told California it owes $2 billion over benefits for people in the country illegally and has recouped half; asked four separate times about acting DNI nominee Bill Pye’s qualifications, he answers only that the topic is “out of my lane.”