I hope this Committee will join me in looking at ways to strengthen, not cut the program, to ensure that it remains strong in the future.

I hope it will be a constructive conversation about how we can improve and strengthen Medicare.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

they have never put anything on the table.

It will make the industry happy, but it will bring needless waste back into the healthcare system and ultimately harm the hardworking families of this country who are paying for this system.

You have to own the whole thing. That is really what we are trying to stop. And have successfully stopped and saved a half billion dollars.

If this hearing were about competition, we would look carefully about how to drive down prices.

Access under the Affordable Care Act is rising clearly where people have access to health care supposedly.

My assumption is that their rules and regulations were put in for you to give data so that they could pick up fraud, if people were trying to cheat. Is that correct?

Because we all care about wasting money. We don't want money to be wasted on these subsidies.

So they are free-riders.