Pete Stark: “First you will have to agree to the Federal Government providing the care. If that is what the gentleman agreed to…”

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.

we are not being asked to contribute anything to pay for that war. Lower income people maybe are.

Medicare is one of our Nation's best programs, but it has always been a work in progress, and it needs ongoing fine-tuning and changing to keep it relevant.