Jim McDermott: “the committee is joined by one of the Members of the Full Committee, Earl Pomeroy from North Dakota, who is one of those…”

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

We have begun to lay the groundwork for payment reform by passing the IMPACT Act, which will give us the data we need to improve quality in post-acute care settings.

It is not what happens in Mr. Kind's district, where about 80 percent of the people have advance directives.

The truth is that Medicare must be strengthened, not cut, and benefits must be expanded, not scaled back.