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

Medicare is one of our Nation's best programs, but it has always been a work in progress, and it needs ongoing fine-tuning and changing to keep it relevant.

I dislike the notion that we need to increase costs for beneficiaries in order to fix the physician payment system.

I think it is the first hearing that Republicans have held in the Ways and Means Committee to advance their plan to end the Medicare as we know it.

Social Security has been there for Americans for 77 years. I hope we can continue to work to make it strong for another 77 years.