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On the recordMay 1, 2025
--The Wall Street Journal articles from the last year? I think they have done five or six major, major exposes on something we called Medicare part C. It is the Medicare Advantage. It was the sort of managed care version within Medicare option that was developed by Republicans in 2005. One of their articles basically says that they identified about $63 billion of waste, fraud, and misalignment a year.
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David Schweikert
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