Pete Stark: “I still believe that the other side of the aisle would like to end Medicare.”

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.

I think we have to ask ourselves, how do we do more good than harm in eliminating the compensation arrangements.

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

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.