Jim McDermott: “Thank you for holding this Member Day hearing to improve and sustain Medicare.”

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.

I intend to carefully scrutinize ideas that may not be in the best interests of the program or the beneficiaries.

These falls can result in serious injuries and expensive hospitalizations.

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