Pete Stark: “If I could finish my statement. There are now national health boards that provide quite well for advising Congress for…”

The home health copayment, for instance, I think is largely ascribed to be used by old, sick, poor widows, and raising the price that they have to pay is just one more Republican effort to deny equal rights to women.

In 2007 Pete Stark wrote that he believed that, on balance, the law may have done more harm than good.

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

I am concerned about the proposals or any proposals that would shift costs to beneficiaries. Doing so I think would devastate them.