Pete Stark: “Well, what do our international obligations have to do with this darn bridge being built in my district and putting all…”

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.

Those 43,000 people are not just anecdotes. They are people too, who will lose their care if this is repealed.

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

I would first of all like to try to make it the protocol in this committee--I am not succeeding too well--that we strike from our lexicon the word 'disability.'