Pete Stark: “Turning a physician's decision to refer a patient into a marketable commodity.”

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

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.