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.

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

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.

I happen to be a fan of his bill to get rid of this idea that if a physician doesn't take Medicare, they are out of the system for 2 years.