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Jim McDermott: “One of the things we did here in this Committee, and it frustrated me then and it still frustrates me, Sandy Levin and I…”

On the recordJuly 23, 2012
One of the things we did here in this Committee, and it frustrated me then and it still frustrates me, Sandy Levin and I put an amendment into a bill in 1990, I believe it was, that would require Medicare to give final directive information to patients when they gave them their beginning of Medicare.
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Jim McDermott
Democratic · Washington

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Reflecting on a past amendment aimed at improving patient information on final directives.

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