Jim McDermott: “The role of the Federal Government is to aid the most vulnerable amongst us.”

The truth is that Medicare must be strengthened, not cut, and benefits must be expanded, not scaled back.

Last year, we came together with MACRA. That landmark reform repealed the SGR and already started the process of transforming how we try to pay physicians under Medicare.

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

The creation of Medicare in 1965 was one of the great policy achievements in the history of this country.