Jim McDermott: “As a medical doctor, I took an oath that says, 'When it comes to treating patients, do no harm.'”

I appreciate your public service.

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.

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

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