Pete Stark: “I strongly oppose these budget cuts which are kind of like the cable company starting to bill you for a service while…”

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

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

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.

But these projections have turned out to be incorrect. And since the passage of the ACA, Medicare Advantage enrollment has increased, and the premiums have decreased.