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