Pete Stark: “Treating marijuana as a prescription drug will give doctors more alternatives for alleviating the pain and suffering of…”

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

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

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.

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.