
So if they are spending $120 billion per year, can you break that out for me in terms of personnel versus procurement, weapons systems, ships?
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So if they are spending $120 billion per year, can you break that out for me in terms of personnel versus procurement, weapons systems, ships?

What area, just in general, of buildup is of greatest concern to the United States? Is it their naval buildup?

I appreciate the fact the administration is highlighting that. I think information, sunlight is probably the best cure there.

I look at China really as a 1.2 billion person opportunity for the United States.

So when we go about our rebalancing, then are we very specifically trying to counter those buildups?

Then who determines that, in 2011, for example, that 61 percent of the $9.7 billion that was paid by the MACs, who determines that 61 percent of that were improper payments?

Is that 100 percent of CMS claims paid through the MAC?

Now, that should not be a very difficult thing to fix when you take a look at--especially with the Internet now, you can really get a competitive price very quickly.

As Senator Johnson mentioned in his opening statement...

We want an effective and efficient government, and the trick is--I come from the private sector, and we were talking about earlier that in the private sector, you have the fiscal discipline of going bankrupt, of making sure that you not…

I think what we really need to do is work together and work with CMS to get the answer to your question in terms of what percentage really is fraud related?

What we are looking at right now in terms of the health care law is when it was originally passed, it was going to cost a trillion dollars over 10 years.

How do you prevent that going forward? It is a very difficult issue.

the consumer of the product, by and large, does not care what something costs because they really do not have that much skin in the game.

Again, that is going to be, I am afraid, another government program that may not be particularly efficient in terms of how the money is spent.

we want to definitely discipline and go after bad actors versus the quality suppliers throughout the industry.

No, there is a plethora of data out there. You have the Internet now. This is easy to do, to actually figure out what is a fair price to pay for any product nowadays. It has never been easier. It is incredibly simple.