Pete Stark: “a number of us have introduced H.R. 1495, a bill to provide a prescription drug for everyone in Medicare.”

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 They are people too, who will lose their care if this is repealed.

I strongly oppose these budget cuts which are kind of like the cable company starting to bill you for a service while you are at home waiting for them to show up and connect it.

Two leading doctors at Harvard Medical School have concluded that 43,000 people will be killed annually if the ACA is repealed without a replacement.

In 2007 Pete Stark wrote that he believed that, on balance, the law may have done more harm than good.