Pete Stark: “I am concerned about the proposals or any proposals that would shift costs to beneficiaries. Doing so I think would…”

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.

The Republicans want to kill Social Security and Medicare and turn them into voucher systems.

If we had vouchers, or whatever you want to call premium support things, the Medicare would stop being a defined benefit plan and become a defined contribution plan, would it not?

I dislike the notion that we need to increase costs for beneficiaries in order to fix the physician payment system.