Pete Stark: “In my comments, I noted that according to FDA records, only 2% of the sutures were recovered in the recall.”

I strongly agree with that and yet, here we are where repealing the ACA without a replacement as the Republicans have already begun to do, would cost roughly $350 billion through 2027.

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

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

Two leading doctors at Harvard Medical School have concluded that 43,000 people will be killed annually if the ACA is repealed without a replacement.