On the recordJuly 22, 1996
Mr. Speaker, I think that the gentleman hit upon the appropriate word, and that was ``better.'' The General Accounting Office, the Inspector General, has looked at the way the current Medicare Program is working and has found significant areas of fraud and waste and abuse in the current program, the way it is currently working. There was recently an editorial in the Washington Post that outlined some of the abuses that occur in the home health care industry, where, for instance, care is provided at $125 an hour or a visit. Total care for home health care is under no competitive bidding. There is no prospect of a payment system in the current plan. There is no effort to control abuses in that area like there is in some of the ways Medicare has worked on preventing abuses in hospital billing. So there are lots of ways that we can make the Medicare system work better.
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