Fourteen percent?

The idea of that is, in fact, to make people pay more out of pocket on the assumption that they will be more careful healthcare consumers.

the RACs operate like the fishermen in my district. They go out and throw a great big net.

Simplifying the program, a complex Medicare program would be helpful.

There was a Senator by the name of Daniel Patrick Moynihan who said there are a lot of simple answers around but we need a great complexifier.

This case-by-case thing--as we spread the Accountable Care Act over the country, they are going to have endless case-by-case things, and I think it ought to be done systematically.

I think the controlling of costs as we move forward in health care is going to be the toughest issue we face.

This type of fraud is just as detrimental to our beneficiaries as to the solvency of the Medicare trust fund.

I want us to try and stop it before it starts.

One of the ways you can save money is don't give care.

Because I think that, when there is this much money on the table as there is in health care today, it is bound to attract some folks who don't have the best interests of the patients or the government or the taxpayers at heart.