Jim McDermott: “But you are telling... it is okay for me to expect everybody else to pay for stuff and I get it for free.”

In my opinion, it could be one of the most important hearings we have held during my time as ranking member on the subcommittee.

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

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 That landmark reform repealed the SGR and already started the process of transforming how we try to pay physicians under Medicare.

It is not what happens in Mr. Kind's district, where about 80 percent of the people have advance directives.