Pete Stark: “The hospitals are often second rate. Sometimes illegal. And it takes profitable business away from community hospitals.”

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

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

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that repealing the major coverage provisions of the Affordable Care Act will terminate coverage for--sorry, not 30, but 32 million people.

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 They are people too, who will lose their care if this is repealed.