Pete Stark: “We keep avoiding the topic of Sustainable Growth Rate formulas in favor of the easier conversations about delivery…”

The home health copayment, for instance, I think is largely ascribed to be used by old, sick, poor widows, and raising the price that they have to pay is just one more Republican effort to deny equal rights to women.

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

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.

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.'