Pete Stark: “The trustees report shows a Medicare program which has been significantly improved by the enactment of the Affordable…”

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

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.

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

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