Jim McDermott: “If you did that, you would see a dramatic change in what is going on in medical care today.”

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

To make that a reality we have to move the conversation in Congress away from harmful ideas like privatizing the program and cutting seniors' benefits.

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

It includes a new tool known as the rapid response mechanism that, when used, allows us to promptly raise concerns with the Mexican and Canadian Governments when there are allegations of worker rights violations.