Unfortunately, until we put market discipline into the health care system, waste and fraud will continue to be a reality in Medicare and Medicaid.

There has to be a price to pay for that, not just paying back the money, but a greater price than that.

I think there is a real opportunity here for us and for the IG and CMS to say, here is what a compliance program looks like at a managed care entity.

I think the key for us in looking at these contractors is--I have difficulties with the bounty issue once again

I think too often we try to take our programs and build up to a number, not really having an expectation that the number may be so large that the process will not get us where we need to go.

I think there is a necessity to try to align the agency and the work that you all do with the law.

Let us make sure FEMA has not put limitations on itself that the law did not intend.

We are going to run out of money in the Medicare Trust Fund.

I am especially interested to see if the first State that ratified the Constitution, might be on that list.

the demonstration project has been seen by many, including by me, as a real success

If we amend our law so that it allows some portion of the recoveries to be used to strengthen those kinds of systems, does that make sense?