Jim McDermott: “I would be glad to help with the cost control.”

I always love to come to these propaganda hearings before the elections, and it is obvious we are trying to hold the insurance companies harmless here.

To make that a reality we have to move the conversation in Congress away from harmful ideas like privatizing the program and cutting seniors' benefits.

It has been a pleasure serving on this committee.

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