A recently resurfaced video shows Mehmet Oz saying that uninsured Americans don't have a "right to health".
Oz, the Republican nominee for Senate in Pennsylvania, said at the National Governors Association that health is only a right for those who can afford it.
Oz was trying to convince governors that local health providers would host inexpensive 15-minute screenings for people who didn't have insurance.
Although Oz said the idea was to give uninsured Americans a way of crawling back out of the abyss, of darkness, of fear over not having the health they need, and give them an opportunity, he didn't think there was a limit to how much care they deserved.
Oz told the governors that they have a right to access health care, even though they don't have a right to health.
Dr. Oz said the uninsured “don’t have the right to health,” but should be given “a way of crawling back out of the abyss” with “15-minute physicals” provided by the government “in a festival like setting.” pic.twitter.com/YMyhpZfEFI
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Oz said Americans don't have a "right to health" with the idea that they do have a right to access health care.
How would an uninsured person benefit from those 15-minute physicals?
The paper's Graig Graziosi wrote that if a doctor found a person had an ailment, it would leave the individual without options other than taking on massive medical debt.
Adding to the confusion, Oz at the time was in favor of health insurance mandates and the health care reform act.
The Oz campaign did not reply right away.
Many people on the social networking site had contempt for his statement.
The article was first published on HuffPost.
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