We should root out waste and abuse of taxpayer dollars wherever and whenever we can.
But the efforts I'm outlining today will scale back waste and abuse.
We go after waste and abuse in the system, especially in Medicare.
Fans of the recent health care legislation say that it will strengthen the Medicare program by cracking down on fraud, waste and abuse.
Second, we've estimated that most of this plan can be paid for by finding savings within the existing health care system, a system that is currently full of waste and abuse.
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Detect and deter fraud, waste and abuse in Internal Revenue Service programs and operations by identifying IRS employs and former employees who have violated or are violating laws, rules, or regulations related to their appointment.
So, taken together, we made enormous progress this week on Wall Street reform, on making sure that we're eliminating waste and abuse in government, and in providing immediate assistance to people who are out there looking for work.
We can agree that if we want greater accountability and responsibility, we have to ensure that people aren't overcharged for prescription drugs, or discriminated against for pre-existing conditions -- and we need to eliminate fraud, waste and abuse in government programs.
We have now incorporated most of the serious ideas from across the political spectrum about how to contain the rising cost of health care --- ideas that go after the waste and abuse in our system, especially in programs like Medicare.
So because all this spending is popular with both Republicans and Democrats alike, and because nobody wants to pay higher taxes, politicians are often eager to feed the impression that solving the problem is just a matter of eliminating waste and abuse.
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He also pledged to end no-bid contracts in Iraq, root out waste and abuse in entitlement programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, require every Cabinet member to scrub department budgets "line by line, " and reinstate a "pay as you go" rule from the 1990s.
And this includes rooting out waste and fraud and abuse in the system.
We will root out -- we will root out the waste and fraud and abuse in our Medicare program that doesn't make our seniors any healthier.
So the only way to reduce health care costs and to wring out what I call waste and fraud and abuse, I hear that term coming up, but nobody's implemented it.
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It incorporates the best ideas from Democrats and Republicans --- including some of the ideas that Republicans offered during the health care summit, like funding state grants on medical malpractice reform, and curbing waste and fraud and abuse in the health care system.
Although the proposal I released last week included a comprehensive set of initiatives to combat fraud, waste, and abuse, Senator Coburn had an interesting suggestion that we engage medical professionals to conduct random undercover investigations of health care providers that receive reimbursements from Medicare, Medicaid, and other Federal programs.
Again, I think those statistics bear that we not just got what we could politically bear but we got into the economy what could be gotten into the economy in as quick a period of time, and to do so without waste, fraud and abuse.
And the only way to identify waste, fraud and abuse, you need an open, transparent information highway that can access fraud and abuse as it's happening in real time.
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And we agree on the dire need to wring out waste, fraud and abuse and get control of skyrocketing health care costs.
And you can get at waste, fraud, and abuse, and you can reduce the cost of medical care while still protecting our seniors.
We need a plan of action that actually can identify the waste, fraud and abuse, and act on it.
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At the very least, we should resolve to apply any resources freed up by ferreting out waste, fraud and abuse in the Defense Department, to addressing yawning shortfalls in the military's modernization, research and development and operations and maintenance funding.
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We will root out the waste, fraud and abuse in our Medicare program that doesn't make our seniors any healthier, and we will restore a sense of fairness and balance to our tax code by finally ending the tax breaks for corporations that ship our jobs overseas.
More and more, IGs are working with agency management to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse.
At the most recent GOP presidential debate, for instance, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich insisted he could address most fiscal problems by controlling, yes, waste, fraud, and abuse.
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Our guiding principle has been to focus resources on targeting high-risk areas in order to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse in Federal programs, while increasing flexibility and reducing burden for grant recipients wherever possible.
More broadly, the health reform law signed by the President strengthens Medicare by taking aggressive new steps to fight waste, fraud, and abuse within the system and reforming the payment system to reduce unnecessary hospital admissions and reduce health care acquired infections.
While Reagan called for cuts in waste, fraud, and abuse of welfare programs, he was working with a Democratic House, and entitlement programs have only grown and proliferated in the past thirty years, with both parties saying yes to low taxes without saying no to new spending.
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If you are an entity with assets that can potentially be diverted, stolen, converted to personal use, or employees that can be corrupted, then you should consider the initiation of a confidential reporting system that provides a method for honest employees to report waste, fraud, and abuse.
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