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

Thank you for holding this hearing and thank our witnesses for their service.

First, you could pay the penalty and remain uninsured.

Two leading doctors at Harvard Medical School have concluded that 43,000 people will be killed annually if the ACA is repealed without a replacement.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I rise in strong opposition to H.R. 436, one more piece of Republican legislation that protects special interests at the expense of working with families. This is just another message in an attempt to…