Pete Stark: “The hospitals are often second-rate. Sometimes illegal. And it takes profitable business away from community hospitals.”

But these projections have turned out to be incorrect. And since the passage of the ACA, Medicare Advantage enrollment has increased, and the premiums have decreased.

I strongly agree with that and yet, here we are where repealing the ACA without a replacement as the Republicans have already begun to do, would cost roughly $350 billion through 2027.

What is shocking to me is that you want to spend even more than that and yet leave 30 million people without health care.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that repealing the major coverage provisions of the Affordable Care Act will terminate coverage for--sorry, not 30, but 32 million people.