It is very dangerous because you cannot reason with stupid, arrogant people, which is a deadly combination.
I had the opportunity to visit Israel last year, spent a couple of sessions in a group meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu and other offic...
The President has an opportunity...to let the rest of the world know and the good people of the world that we are going to stand by them.
In 2012, Medicare spent approximately $555 billion caring for more than 49 million beneficiaries.
According to data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, in 2011, Medicare spending accounted for 21 percent of total national...
CMS estimates that out of that $555 billion, $44 billion--nearly 8 percent--were improper payments.
I look forward to hearing from our GAO witnesses what areas in the Medicare and Medicaid programs are most vulnerable to fraud and their rec...
How can we protect the most vulnerable in our society if we don't protect the integrity of the system that was intended to serve them?
I have dedicated much of my career in Congress to improving the quality and efficiency of both the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
So the answer is no?
The subcommittee will come to order.
I am not sure, by why is HHS classifying these expenses as administrative when they are expended specifically to improve the quality of a ne...
I would rather it be at $2,000 but $4,000 is a lot better than $4 million.
Now, these are necessary and non-negotiable costs that we all want to encourage health plans to incur...
Medicare has been on the Government Accountability Office's high-risk list continuously since GAO began designating programs as high risk in...
Fighting fraud is critical to both of these and critical to being responsible stewards of taxpayers' dollars, an issue where we should be ab...
We are now seeing the impact of provisions in the Affordable Care Act that help us move away from the traditional 'pay and chase' approach t...
We also need to ensure that the public and private sectors are collaborating, because we know that schemes that affect programs like Medicar...
