Jim McDermott: “Seniors already spend one third of their income on health care. They can't afford any more skin in the game.”

Doing without dental coverage frequently leads to preventable health problems.

the bottom line, as far as I am concerned, is what happens to patients.

A strong Medicare doesn't mean we turn the program over to the insurance industry, and it doesn't mean we shift more costs on to the beneficiaries.

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 That landmark reform repealed the SGR and already started the process of transforming how we try to pay physicians under Medicare.