Bill Clinton: “Let me just point out that, if I might, I'd like to ask--our U.S. Attorney is here, and I'd like to ask him to--Kendall…”

“Let me just point out that, if I might, I'd like to ask--our U.S. Attorney is here, and I'd like to ask him to--Kendall Coffey--just to talk very briefly about what we're doing in this here in Florida because this is one area where I hope we can get bipartisan agreement with the Congress. There is a lot of money to be saved in fraud and abuse. And our friends in the press corps who are covering this, you know, they hear this in every Government program, and people tend to get cynical. But in the Medicare/ Medicaid program, it's expanded so fast and diversified so much, and we have so much--things like Alzheimer's that you were talking about--there is genuinely a lot of fraud and abuse. And I think if we could get an agreement--there are some good things, by the way, in their plan that I like about dealing with this. And if we can get an agreement on about how much money we could save, this could help us to go some way toward resolving our differences. So, Mr. Coffey, maybe you could talk a little bit about what you're doing here in Florida to deal with this fraud and abuse problem. [Mr. Coffey described Federal and State efforts to crack down on medical fraud and Medicare fraud in particular.]”