Former talk show host Mehmet Oz was questioned Monday about his citation of a study on the television-watching habits of Medicaid recipients.

During an Aspen Institute event in Washington, Oz, the administrator of the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services, spoke with CNBC senior health care reporter Bertha Coombs about the Trump administration’s “passionate desire to get people to believe they have agency over their future.” This involves re-examining Medicaid work requirements, 65-year-old Oz said.

“If you sit at home as an able-bodied person on Medicaid—and on average you will watch 6.1 hours of television or leisure time at home—you actually don’t want that," Oz said. “Opiate use rates skyrocket. People don’t want to sit at home doing nothing. They want to have opportunities.”

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