Are there audits that you are awaiting permission to begin?
We are talking about billions of dollars we are trying to capture.
One of the ideas is to allow the employees who stop smoking, lose weight, control their cholesterol, control their blood pressure to actuall...
I think those resources can be brought to bear here, and it is almost an incentive system.
Their strategy at CMS and the MEDICs was to use proactive data analysis to identify the problems and prevent them before they occurred.
But we are not making enough, as you know, and I feel and I think my colleagues feel there is a certain passion to want to step this up.
But, we could say, well, we are getting $600 million, $700 million, that is a pretty good way to measure success.
I think we are really still at the starting gate.
I think it is time we take a very hard look at this program as to whether or not the taxpayers are getting a bang for their buck.
Let me just interrupt you again, if I may. Describe for us in terms that everybody could understand what a desk audit is.
I want an up-or-down vote.
President Obama wrapped up the meeting today with a request and a warning as well. He asked all sides to search for common ground. But also ...
We all agree on.
Well, we all agree on that.
Thanks for coming off the disabled list to be here with all of us today, and thank you also for your service.
I will support a request to increase aviation security fees to benefit the budget of the Department of Homeland Security.
This increased recommendation of $900 million certainly increases our defenses against attempts to attack us on airplanes.
I appreciate the Administration's proposal to add $900 million to key aviation security programs.
