Jim McDermott: “If we really want to root out the causes of this we need to talk about campaign finance laws, and Citizens United…”

The Governor of Texas decided he didn't want health care coverage for 1.2 million or 1,314,000 people.

Mr. Blumenauer put through a bill, Mr. Levin and I put a bill in 25 years ago, that everybody in Medicare ought to file an advance directive.

This is the kind of hearing where there isn't much disagreement about the fact that we want to have quality.

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.