Jim McDermott: “You mean we allow the States to have different standards for people?”

We are trying to figure out where we are going as a country and how we can turn our investments and innovation into sustainable models moving forward.

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 That landmark reform repealed the SGR and already started the process of transforming how we try to pay physicians under Medicare.

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.

This committee has the potential of doing more good for the American people than perhaps any other single subcommittee in the Congress.