Pete Stark: “Medicare is one of our Nation's best programs, but it has always been a work in progress, and it needs ongoing…”

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

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.

Those 43,000 people are not just anecdotes. They are people too, who will lose their care if this is repealed.

I strongly agree with that and yet, here we are where repealing the ACA without a replacement as the Republicans have already begun to do, would cost roughly $350 billion through 2027.