Jim McDermott: “If you shift the cost to beneficiaries, how does that get paid for?”

The witch hunt that is going on here is really about discrediting the IRS.

One of the largest holes in the Medicare system is that it does not currently cover most dental, vision, or hearing expenses.

This is the kind of hearing where there isn't much disagreement about the fact that we want to have quality.

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.