Jim McDermott: “How do we make a transition that makes sense in the delivery of health care, as well as fiscal sense?”

Thank you for holding this Member Day hearing to improve and sustain Medicare.

Patients who have poor or no dental care often find themselves suffering from costly and potentially fatal conditions such as cardio-vascular disease and oral cancers.

The witch hunt that is going on here is really about discrediting the IRS.

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.