If there were hundreds of thousands of Social Security beneficiaries getting their retirement benefits cut by as much as 70 percent, there would be a national outrage.

These Teamsters played by the rules, as was talked about today, did exactly what they were told to do, and worked long hours and many years with the expectation that this would be there.

In fact, on August 25th we celebrate the 100th year anniversary of our National Parks.

By the way, the CARA legislation also authorizes the Pregnant and Postpartum Women's Program...

But there is also a subset of Medicare beneficiaries who are innocently getting duplicative opioid prescriptions.

I think that is important.

But this legislation that Senator Toomey has proposed is really important, because it says with regard to Medicare, let us be sure that we are not allowing people to do the kind of pharmacy-shopping and doctor-shopping that leads to abuse.

This is fraud. That is what is happening in most of these cases.

Of course, it is. In fact, this very legislation will help people get into treatment, because, once they are identified as a frequent abuser, they actually are given the information and a referral to treatment.

I have been at hospitals in Cincinnati and Cleveland and in Lima...

We have seen in our Medicaid program in Ohio, through this lock-in program, a 41-percent reduction in dosages for certain narcotics.