Pete Stark: “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.

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

I would first of all like to try to make it the protocol in this committee--I am not succeeding too well--that we strike from our lexicon the word 'disability.'

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