Jim McDermott: “So then the difference is in the payment that is received by the hospital or that the patient has to make depending on…”

If confirmed as Deputy United States Trade Representative, I will continue to fight for American workers, fight for the environment, and fight for our economic future.

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.

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

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 That landmark reform repealed the SGR and already started the process of transforming how we try to pay physicians under Medicare.