Jim McDermott: “My point is, Mr. Chairman, patients don't shop, they follow what doctors tell them to do.”

Mr. Blumenauer put through a bill, Mr. Levin and I put a bill in 25 years ago, that everybody in Medicare ought to file an advance directive.

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

Doing without dental coverage frequently leads to preventable health problems.

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.