Jim McDermott: “We are talking about a new world that we are trying to reform now than the one they were reforming in 1980.”

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.

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 That landmark reform repealed the SGR and already started the process of transforming how we try to pay physicians under Medicare.

At its core, Medicare is a fulfillment of a commitment to the health security of the American people.

This is the kind of hearing where there isn't much disagreement about the fact that we want to have quality.