Claire McCaskill actually said...

"We have no hope of understanding this problem if the data that we are collecting is not done in a way that it can support good public policy."

"And, by the way, the data is not very useful then."

"We have to figure out how not to pay up front, instead of paying and chasing."

"The notion that we cannot figure out who has died before we pay them... It seems to me... If the Federal Government cannot figure that out, then there is no hope."