04/20/2009
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"I want to thank Ranking Member Collins for scheduling this hearing and for reopening the conversation about advanced planning for medical treatment."
"Patients need to be treated like whole people, people with loved ones and families, people with dignity and values."
"I just want to take this chance to say publicly, yes, I have had the conversation. I had it twice."
"Too often in today's health care system, medical care is focused on treating a disease, not on helping an individual patient."