Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 525) to amend title XI of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a public-private partnership for purposes of identifying health care waste, fraud, and abuse. The Clerk read the title of the bill. The text of the bill is as follows: H.R. 525 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Strengthening the Health Care Fraud Prevention Task Force Act of 2019''. SEC. 2. PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP FOR HEALTH CARE WASTE, FRAUD, AND ABUSE DETECTION. (a) In General.--Section 1128C(a) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1320a-7c(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: ``(6) Public-private partnership for waste, fraud, and abuse detection.-- ``(A) In general.--Under the program described in paragraph (1), there is established a public-private partnership (in this paragraph referred to as the `partnership') of health plans, Federal and State agencies, law enforcement agencies, health care anti-fraud organizations, and any other entity determined appropriate by the Secretary (in this paragraph referred to as `partners') for purposes of detecting and preventing health care waste, fraud, and abuse.…”