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

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.

It gave every shyster and promoter a loophole. . . . We now have to keep rewriting the laws like the tax code.

Two leading doctors at Harvard Medical School have concluded that 43,000 people will be killed annually if the ACA is repealed without a replacement.

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.