Trump’s Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Dr. Mehmet Oz, wants elderly boomers to work till they’re 65 because the economy surely needs their bodies more than they and their families do. Right?
Despite having spent the last four decades as a doctor, it appears that Dr. Oz has forgotten all his vows of compassion and care. Speaking live from Washington on Oct. 7, Oz proposed that all workers born in 1964, who are supposed to retire this year, should instead work three more years till they’re 65 years old. The reason? “It’s worth more than a trillion dollars to the U.S. economy.” But even more bizarrely, he purported that these elderly boomers “would want to do it anyway” if they felt vibrant, vigorous, alive, and fit.”
