Jim McDermott: “I think that, you know, we have to look at what we have accomplished. We have reduced the deficit by half.”

The truth is that Medicare must be strengthened, not cut, and benefits must be expanded, not scaled back.

Innovation will be central to our efforts to address rising healthcare costs.

These falls can result in serious injuries and expensive hospitalizations.

We have made some substantive bipartisan progress recently. We need to build on our success.