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

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

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

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

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