The current MSP system, which we are investigating today, discourages and even prevents companies from settling claims involving Medicare beneficiaries.

Only in Washington can someone who wants to send money back to the Federal Government be ignored.

Hundreds of millions of dollars that should be repaid to the Medicare Trust Fund are sitting in lawyers' accounts.

Are you aware of some I referenced in my opening statement here that Rand Corporation just completed a study that found if you only looked at settlements greater than $5,000 instead of every single settlement, your collections would fall…

I am frustrated here because we are trying to get information on something I am not sure you collect the very data that we are trying to find out.

We are ready and able to reimburse the trust fund, but we need your help to clear the bureaucracy out of the way and make a sensible MSP system that will actually work.

Breaks the heart.

And I am hoping that one of the outcomes of this hearing, Mr. Chairman, is that we hear from cases throughout the country.

I think the more I hear, the more it boggles the mind and breaks the heart when we hear of what happens to seniors.

I hope that that information is getting to her.

I think it is also calling upon us to increase the NIH research budget so that we can find a cure.

Dual eligibles, those individuals who are eligible for both the Medicare and Medicaid programs, are one of our sickest, poorest, most costly and most vulnerable populations.

We have got to address it now.

By the time all the baby boomers have it, 15 billion, the bill for Alzheimer's will equal the defense budget.

Madam Chair, as chairman of the House Agriculture Committee's Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry, I rise in strong support of this amendment offered by my friend from Pennsylvania and ranking member on the subcommittee, Mr…

Madam Chair, I move to strike the last word. The CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.

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