•    There’s been a lot of lip-service lately to the majority’s bill regarding entitlement reform. What reform?

•    The majority’s leaders claim across-the-board cuts to Medicare fee-for-service providers such as hospitals is health reform. That doesn’t reform the problems we face in how we pay for services in Medicare. That just generates money they can use to expand Medicaid.

•    Guess what? President Obama agrees. Just last week he sent a letter to Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman urging him to do more than just cuts. To do real reform to make our current health care system sustainable.

•    Here’s a thought – rather than cut Medicare, why not implement better waste, fraud and abuse policies in order to really REFORM our health care system? 

•    The National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association (NHCAA) estimates conservatively that 3 percent of all health care spending—or $68 billion—is lost to health care fraud.  Other estimates by government and law enforcement agencies place the loss due to health care fraud as high as 10 percent of our nation’s annual health care expenditure—or a staggering $226 billion—each year. The Democrats spend a mere $3.1 billion over 10 years in fraud and abuse activities within Medicare. That’s not reform.