And we're all trying to figure out a way to stave off a fiscal crisis in this nation, the world is looking to us.

I don't think that you can put them into a template.

Instead of reading my opening statement, I'll start by saying that some time ago, I don't watch a great deal of television, but I would see ads on television regarding all kinds of mobility devices.

I hope the pilot goes well and hope we get down in the single digits, as you mentioned, Dr. Hughes.

CMS, which spends billions of dollars each year on durable medical equipment, doesn't have the staff or the resources actually to look at these authorizations in advance in most cases.

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.

80 percent is a huge number.

For me, as I listened to the testimony today, there is either a--I want to use this word not in a definitive term, but there's almost a fraud that's being put on the American people because of the way the system is set up.

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 amount of abuse taking place in this…

But it jeopardizes everyone who does have a medical necessity for one of these, and I appreciate all of you being here.

I know this was really to be about the demonstration program.

this is a great Nation. I was interested to hear the comments of our two leaders today, and I am saddened, as are all of us here, regarding the news of Ambassador Stevens and three other hard-working public servants who represent us. We…