Pete Stark: “$8.6 trillion. Do you have any idea what the two wars we are fighting and not paying for costs over the same period of…”

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

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?

The home health copayment, for instance, I think is largely ascribed to be used by old, sick, poor widows, and raising the price that they have to pay is just one more Republican effort to deny equal rights to women.

I strongly oppose these budget cuts which are kind of like the cable company starting to bill you for a service while you are at home waiting for them to show up and connect it.