Jim McDermott: “Well, before we close, I said at the beginning, half in jest to you, Lord Monckton, that I could mark you down as…”

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.

Mr. Blumenauer put through a bill, Mr. Levin and I put a bill in 25 years ago, that everybody in Medicare ought to file an advance directive.

None of us on our side who were involved in drawing it up thought for one minute that we had created the Ten Commandments off the mountain, which haven't been changed since Moses brought them down off the mountain.

the bottom line, as far as I am concerned, is what happens to patients.