No more subsidies. Now that I'm on a roll, in that Affordable Care Act, there was additional money for the Internal Revenue Service, the IRS, specifically to go after Medicare fraud. We know it's a problem. In the previous years, the Republican budgets reduced the effort of the Medicare program to go after fraud. So we put money into the Affordable Health Care Act to go after fraud. Guess what happened when the Republicans came to power. They eliminated the money that the IRS needed to add additional agents to go after Medicare fraud.
John Garamendi: “No more subsidies. Now that I'm on a roll, in that Affordable Care Act, there was additional money for the Internal…”
On the recordJune 23, 2011
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