Jim McDermott: “You have to have a disability that is going to keep you off the rolls for a year, that you are going to be unable to…”

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

Doing without dental coverage frequently leads to preventable health problems.

I always love to come to these propaganda hearings before the elections, and it is obvious we are trying to hold the insurance companies harmless here.

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.