Jim McDermott: “This tax structure is not going to be solved by a hearing where people have three minutes to talk about it.”

This area is such a large part of our economy as well as such a large part of our question of national security.

Let me take an example, because we hear a lot of examples given up here.

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.

The creation of Medicare in 1965 was one of the great policy achievements in the history of this country.