Pete Stark: “Basically Republicans want to take away Medicare's guaranteed benefits and replace it with a voucher and put the…”

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

What is shocking to me is that you want to spend even more than that and yet leave 30 million people without health care.

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

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 They are people too, who will lose their care if this is repealed.