the welcome mat is always out for you.

We must get after it.

You bet we will. And we are determined to make sure that you do.

I was encouraged by what I heard on Parts C and D, not so encouraged on what I heard about the States.

A minimum threshold should be, in rolling it out to the rest of the country, should be to achieve what was achieved during that program.

I would say at least half of that should be able to be recovered.

OK, thank. Ms. Benko.

I think we need to set some goals here, and I think we need to set some timelines.

Everything I do I know I can do better.

We value the work that you and your colleagues do for our country.

This might be an obvious question, but are there some simple things that we could do to really perform checks on the identifiers?

I would just urge you and your colleagues to give this everything you have.

I am asking you to respond on the record what you are going to do with that new authority.

There is real money to be saved here. We have a Medicare Trust Fund that has somewhere between--I do not know--10, 15 years of life left in it, and we need every dollar--it needs every dollar that we can save.

Several reports outside of the government's reports estimated Medicare and Medicaid fraud at $80 to $100 billion.

we are spending about $460 billion this year, and the amount of waste that has been identified ranges anywhere from $36 billion to, I think, $60 billion.

We are be ready to take on additional work with the Medicaid and the Part D plans absolutely quickly.

We do not want to lose sight of the other 35. They represent cumulatively about almost a quarter of a billion dollars in annual overpayments.