Now, that should not be a very difficult thing to fix when you take a look at--especially with the Internet now, you can really get a competitive price very quickly.

As Senator Johnson mentioned in his opening statement...

First of all, we certainly agree that any level of improper payment is not acceptable, and certainly a two-thirds rate of improper payments is not acceptable.

No, there is a plethora of data out there. You have the Internet now. This is easy to do, to actually figure out what is a fair price to pay for any product nowadays. It has never been easier. It is incredibly simple.

we want to definitely discipline and go after bad actors versus the quality suppliers throughout the industry.

But, again, it is not speaking to the benefit of utilizing more of a private sector model, where individuals have more skin in the game or more control over what they are spending, making wise consumer choices, versus the government just…

It is totally outdated now.

When they initially estimated how much Medicare would cost the American taxpayer, they projected about 25 years and they said that Medicare would cost $12 billion in the year 1990. In fact, it ended up costing $110 billion, nine times the…

Senator Johnson mentioned. In this scheme, a supplier number is established for a DME supplier that does not exist.

I appreciate the numbers that you were throwing out, $27.5 billion saved estimated over the next 10 years, but that is $2.7 billion divided by more than $700 billion. That is 0.35 percent. It is better than nothing, but it is not much…

I guess maybe the first lesson learned here is Congress is not particularly good or efficient at price fixing.