Jim McDermott actually said...

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...

We have made some substantive bipartisan progress recently. We need to build on our success.

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.

None of us on our side who were involved in drawing it up thought for one minute that we had created the Ten Commandments off the mountain, ...