Pete Stark: “We are more than a decade away into the debacle known as SGR reform.”

First, you could pay the penalty and remain uninsured.

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

Medicare is one of our Nation's best programs, but it has always been a work in progress, and it needs ongoing fine-tuning and changing to keep it relevant.

I happen to be a fan of his bill to get rid of this idea that if a physician doesn't take Medicare, they are out of the system for 2 years.