Pete Stark: “Mr. Chairman I am pleased at this time to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Rhode Island (Mr. Kennedy), who has been…”

I am concerned about the proposals or any proposals that would shift costs to beneficiaries. Doing so I think would devastate them.

It gave every shyster and promoter a loophole. . . . We now have to keep rewriting the laws like the tax code.

Basically Republicans want to take away Medicare's guaranteed benefits and replace it with a voucher and put the insurance companies back in charge.

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.