Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, it goes further. Have you had the occasion yet, Mr. Speaker, where a group comes into your office--somehow, they were put on a plane, put in a hotel, those things here, they have no understanding of the math, the mechanics, but somehow there were Medicaid providers in your State that had plenty of cash lying around to fly people out to come lobby. So we did this, we pulled open another Wall Street Journal article from a week or two ago talking about how many people in the Medicaid systems in the United States are enrolled in multiple States. You actually have billions and billions and billions of dollars here that are enrolled in multiple States. Even for the discussion of could we just match data, you actually get objections to this because the fraud is part of the profit model. I am on Ways and Means. This is something Energy and Commerce has in their primary jurisdiction. They are working through it. If you just stack up the cheating, the misuse--the vacuousness, the absence of data to try to deal with the multiple enrollment population, if you actually start to stack these things up, how dare you call those cuts. How dare you. Why don't you care about the future of this government and the future of this society? We cannot handle the stacking of debt. Did I mention the $72,000 we borrow every second? It only goes up. We have a model that says in the 10-year window, we are up somewhere in the mid-nineties per second in borrowing.…”