Jim McDermott: “Access under the Affordable Care Act is rising clearly where people have access to health care supposedly.”

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.

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

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

the buck stops at your desk, more or less, is how it would be put in Harry Truman's terms, correct?