Jack Kingston: “I wanted to make a point about this fraud and abuse. Right now Medicare does not pay people like your father with that…”

“I wanted to make a point about this fraud and abuse. Right now Medicare does not pay people like your father with that stack of bills, if he finds out that three or four of them are erroneous, he does not get any kind of reward for that at all. In fact many times when you say don't pay a bill to Medicare, you have to really be proactive or they resist you. But here is an example. This is a kind of a dressing, and I am not sure, a salesperson gave this to me, and said that the cost, the actual manufacturing cost, is like 9 cents and it sells under Medicare for about $28. It is a total abuse of the system. And I just want to say that under our reform plan, seniors who are getting billed for this kind of thing right and left would have the opportunity to crack down on it.”