Jim McDermott: “I appreciate your public service.”

We are trying to figure out where we are going as a country and how we can turn our investments and innovation into sustainable models moving forward.

It is not what happens in Mr. Kind's district, where about 80 percent of the people have advance directives.

Now, the reason I raise this issue is that we all know that about 70 percent of healthcare costs occur in the last 6 months of life.

The Governor of Texas decided he didn't want health care coverage for 1.2 million or 1,314,000 people.