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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Mar 2, 2010

The next step is to go out and recover the money that has been improperly paid if there is a recovery to be had.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Mar 2, 2010

Let me come back to, I think, Ms. King and also Mr. Blum on the next question.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Mar 2, 2010

If we want to recover these monies, in some cases prevent the fraud from occurring but recover monies that have been defrauded.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Mar 2, 2010

I think IRS has a similar kind of approach where we recover monies that have been, frankly, recovered because of tax evasion.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Mar 2, 2010

The larger the database, the greater the potential for identifying fraud.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Mar 2, 2010

I think there are some very important provisions pending now in health reform that will give CMS more tools to oversee and to strengthen the Part D program.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Mar 2, 2010

We know we have these huge budget deficits. We know the Medicare trust fund is running out of money.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Mar 2, 2010

I think your idea of asking GAO to come back to us in about 6 months is a good one.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Mar 2, 2010

We are talking about billions of dollars we are trying to capture.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Mar 2, 2010

One of the ideas is to allow the employees who stop smoking, lose weight, control their cholesterol, control their blood pressure to actually receive premium discounts for up to 30 percent if they do the right thing for themselves and for…

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Mar 2, 2010

I think those resources can be brought to bear here, and it is almost an incentive system.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Mar 2, 2010

What do you need in terms of change in attitude, change in direction, change in regulation, change in legislation?

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Mar 2, 2010

It is not enough to be good. You have to be great and continue to get better.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Mar 2, 2010

But, we could say, well, we are getting $600 million, $700 million, that is a pretty good way to measure success.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Mar 2, 2010

I think we are really still at the starting gate.

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