Pete Stark: “Under this new system, over time (unfortunately in many cases 20-30 years) the patient's share of the total bill will…”

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 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.'

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 They are people too, who will lose their care if this is repealed.

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