Jim McDermott actually said...

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

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...

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

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.