07/13/2011
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"So when people talk about hundreds of billions of dollars in waste, fraud and abuse existing in Medicare, just this one example would lead people to believe that that really might well be the case."
"So we've set up a program to deal with an 80 percent error rate, one that any American with any kind of ability to comprehend can watch on television and understand that there's probably a tremendous ..."
"But isn't an 80 percent rate almost beyond belief, even for the Federal Government?"
"One of our panelists later on is part of Blue Cross of Tennessee, and they have a managed care plan, a Medicare Advantage plan that has a negligible improper payment rate, negligible."