I thank the gentleman from Arkansas. At this point in time, I yield to the gentleman from Georgia.

I thank the gentleman for his comments so much because the Independent Payment Advisory Board is a classic example of what is wrong with ObamaCare. What they did in ObamaCare in the last congressional session was delegate its authority to…

The Senior Medicare Patrol is such a good idea. How do you recruit people for it?

A serious effort in Congress, unfortunately, is underway to do away with Medicare, as we know it, and to slash the support the Federal Government provides for Medicaid.

I think one of the reasons that Rhode Island is not a hot spot and that people can get away with these huge billing scams in other places is that in Rhode Island, we do tend to know each other.

Thanks to recent laws that the Senator alluded to, such as the Affordable Care Act, which is also known as the health care reform law, and the Small Business Jobs Act that was passed by Congress and that Senator Whitehouse had a great deal…

I will look forward to the September 30 report.

Well, I think that's a very good and logical next step.

This hearing was enormously helpful. I know we got tremendous publicity around the program.

I started thinking how much older people can give back to their community.

When people know they are being watched, they are going to behave.

I really applaud the specific recommendations you have made and I look forward to working with your organization to see what can be done by way of moving them into legislation.

We are trying to bring new technologies that have proven themselves in other fields to bear, to watch the payment of claims.

I am very alert to the oversight functions of Congress of what we could from a regulatory and oversight perspective.

We help lower hospital admissions, help keep people living in their communities, and assist those at the end of life, ensuring that their final days are comfortable and dignified, and that their families are supported and cared for, as…

We do two things in Congress. One is to legislate and create new laws. The other is to oversee the executive branch of government and its administration of laws that already exist.

The good news is that Federal, State and local law enforcement, using both traditional and new data-driven techniques of the kind Senator Whitehouse alluded to, are working effectively and efficiently to combat these schemes.

I wanted to find out a little bit more about what we might be able to do to raise that limit, knowing that it would be a good thing.