I'm glad to join you here as, you, the chairman of the subcommittee, and this is my first day as ranking member.
The Medicare trust fund is estimated to be exhausted in 2029.
I mean, they're cheating some beneficiary that might be in need----
If it's individual fraud, they ought to be prosecuted. If it's corporate fraud, they ought to be prosecuted, not just pay the fine.
I have a number of questions for the record, Doctor.
A lot of people have complained, especially in Baldwin County, about partial claims, and they are desperate for the money.
I would never want you to pay one cent that was not meritorious.
I think my people in Alabama, just like Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, and others, they are interested in a fair process.
In exercising discretion--in exercising the power that this office has and that the agency has in this and a number of other very important ...
Will you be independent if you are confirmed?
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