He, when he came into my agency, there were only 80 people in program integrity. These are the people who are monitoring $2.2 trillion in payments annually from my agency, we do 4 million transactions a day." Kennedy argued that the reduction in oversight created an opportunity for fraudulent actors to exploit federal health care programs. "And that's why we have this hospice program." Kennedy described the policy as fundamentally flawed and said his administration has eliminated it.