Pete Stark: “We haven't seen such persistent job loss since the 1930s.”

First, you could pay the penalty and remain uninsured.

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.'

I happen to be a fan of his bill to get rid of this idea that if a physician doesn't take Medicare, they are out of the system for 2 years.