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Published: Mon, 2 Nov 2009
Description: Is the White House serious about cleaning up health care fraud, waste?
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" I mean government is trying to fix health -- and I think the fix is in. I think anybody reasonable. Would say hey able free trying to fix health -- what did you take a look at Medicare and Medicaid because there wildly out of control right. Their combined budgets are 700 billion dollars. -- on yourself that's bigger than the defense budget. Our savings are supposed to come from cutting seventeen billion dollars for Medicaid in the next five years. That doesn't even count the fraud that nobody's paying attention to. You know they always keep talking about the -- the big bad insurers they made a 2.2 percent profit. That's a pretty slim profit margin and that's over the entire system while Medicare and Medicaid have lost sixty billion dollars in fraud. And that's what we know off. May I ask you what I think is a reasonable question America if you are serious about cleaning up the waste. Wouldn't shoot you know do that first before taking on another health care job. Wouldn't you I don't know -- at least a point ahead of the Medicare or Medicaid program. This president hasn't done that yet. Did you know that."
" Why didn't you know. Why aren't people telling you this Kevin Williamson he is the deputy managing editor for the national review Kevin stunning. That we -- how the I was -- about this as a businessman. If I was gonna take over company and has -- say okay I gotta get all the way I gotta cut a lot of expenditure out there I would at least have my own guy in there. To evaluate how bad the situation hits -- out of."
" Nobody in charge I think you're absolutely right about that they don't want to evaluate how bad the situation right nobody wants to know it's a bad bad story Medicare and Medicaid. You know Medicare Medicaid Social Security -- about half of the federal budget. I mean it's it's a huge huge group -- programs gonna get bigger and bigger over time. And the amount of fraud waste abuse and just -- right crime and -- going on in this programs. Is unreal but -- almost as bad as that are the things that are done that are. Improper but not actually strictly speaking a legal and there's all sorts of money that system's basically sand legal -- you know I went Joe Wilson got. Himself all the united shape when he -- you -- president right on about covering illegal aliens. Yeah he wasn't lying in fact Medicaid was found to be spending billions of dollars every year improperly. Covering illegal aliens and they were doing that. Because. I'm very empowered to have spend money on illegals if it's an emergency conditions chairwoman goes into numbers are delivered baby chair so that was one example of that what they did was they took bad example has decided that pregnancy in general was -- Americans to condition. So the reason Medicaid to pay for everything for -- prenatal vitamins."
" This is why I've said you cannot let any bill passed now."
" You can't because they get their foot in the door and this is -- some steams."
" Speciality. -- its its bloodiest tweak things -- salute to just open these things up and it's done and I think if it doesn't matter what's actually in the bill what matters is what happens and administrative apparatus yours and -- after the fact do you think that's why. The you know you find abortion and everything else in this is that they can say all you want to cut all that out there expecting. It that way it looks like they're being more reasonable but it doesn't look the average American doesn't seem to get. I think it may be the Republicans do get it. It it doesn't matter once you pass this bill."
" It's over you know every every bureaucracy -- stated strike and once you create the bureaucracy you're gonna get -- and there's not going to be sort of libertarian bureaucracy out there. Amid all that matters -- you get the program created and -- years down the road you can shape the way you want human Medicare -- Medicaid whenever expected to."
" did you know anything about -- Michelle Bachmann was on my radio show today and she said that she was asking for people to come. To Washington on Thursday at noon and listen to Jon Voight. And then go into the capital and go face to face -- their representatives and I got calls from people I think he would do it. I get calls from people all over the country singer I'm coming up I'm gonna do it her -- it when you think that makes any difference."
" No I'd have to accept. Martyr I really don't think so I think Washington is so insulated I mean even. This year coming up in the next set of elections there's there's a great deal of -- out there right now -- tea party movement all the rest of it. But I would I bet real money that you'll see -- percent of incumbents to reelected maybe ninety odd percent I mean it's me once -- an office it's hard to get ready okay back in just the second."
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