[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 118 (Thursday, July 20, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H7264-H7265]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        MEDICARE FRAUD AND ABUSE

  (Ms. ESHOO asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. ESHOO. Mr. Speaker, yesterday the GAO issued a report outlining 
charges against ABC Home Health Care for defrauding American taxpayers 
through the Medicare Program. The Democrats want to reform the Medicare 
system, but you do not do it by picking the seniors' health care 
pockets dry.
  What we want to do is to scrap the tax break plan and stop this 
private sector ripoff of the public sector.
  The GAO said that this Georgia company did do this: $140,000 for 
airplane costs; $21,000 for a pilot's salary; $16,000 for alcohol at a 
leadership conference. 

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  Get this one: $84,000 for gourmet popcorn. My mother and father have 
never done this. This is, again, a ripoff by the providers and the 
private sector of the public sector. Scrap the tax break plan and stop 
picking at our senior citizens.


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