'Good ideas at scale!' Dr. Oz wants cheap AI avatars to take roles from pricey doctors

One of Dr. Mehmet Oz's first orders of business after being appointed President Donald Trump's director of Medicare and Medicaid Services: robot doctors.

According to Wired, Oz made the comments during his first all-hands meeting at CMS since taking over the agency.

"Oz claimed that if a patient went to a doctor for a diabetes diagnosis, it would be '$100' per hour, while an appointment with an AI avatar would cost considerably less, at just '$2' an hour," reported Leah Feiger and Steven Levy.