Pete Stark: “I want to commend Santa Clara County for being the first in the nation to set its sights on covering all children with…”

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

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

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.

I would first of all like to try to make it the protocol in this committee--I am not succeeding too well--that we strike from our lexicon the word 'disability.'