Pete Stark: “I thank the gentleman for yielding me the time and would like to associate myself with his remarks and suggest that…”

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.'

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

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.

I think we have to ask ourselves, how do we do more good than harm in eliminating the compensation arrangements.