Pete Stark: “For those for whom it is unavailable, the Government should do it immediately, if possible, with benefits about as…”

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.'

Turning a physician's decision to refer a patient into a marketable commodity.

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 They are people too, who will lose their care if this is repealed.

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.