Jim McDermott: “I look forward to working with all of my colleagues to advance a proposal that will achieve that goal.”

This committee has the potential of doing more good for the American people than perhaps any other single subcommittee in the Congress.

The creation of Medicare in 1965 was one of the great policy achievements in the history of this country.

Last year, we came together with MACRA. That landmark reform repealed the SGR and already started the process of transforming how we try to pay physicians under Medicare.

A strong Medicare doesn't mean we turn the program over to the insurance industry, and it doesn't mean we shift more costs on to the beneficiaries.