Pete Stark: “We need to level Miami down toward Oregon, not level Oregon up toward Miami, or we are doing a severe injustice to our…”

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

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 They are people too, who will lose their care if this is repealed.

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

Turning a physician's decision to refer a patient into a marketable commodity.