Pete Stark: “I dislike the notion that we need to increase costs for beneficiaries in order to fix the physician payment system.”

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.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that repealing the major coverage provisions of the Affordable Care Act will terminate coverage for--sorry, not 30, but 32 million people.

In 2007 Pete Stark wrote that he believed that, on balance, the law may have done more harm than good.