Pete Stark: “Why have legislators?”

I am going to go on record again making clear the strong opposition that Democrats have to the House Republican proposal.

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

turning a physician's decision to refer a patient into a marketable commodity.

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.