Pete Stark: “What is shocking to me is that you want to spend even more than that and yet leave 30 million people without health…”

Thank you for holding this hearing and thank our witnesses for their service.

The CBO has said it would lead to an increase in overall national health spending as seniors and people with disabilities are moved into less efficient, more costly private plans.

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.

The Republicans want to kill Social Security and Medicare and turn them into voucher systems.