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

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

It gave every shyster and promoter a loophole. We now have to keep rewriting the laws like the tax code.

I am going to go on record again making clear the strong opposition that Democrats have to the House Republican proposal.