Pete Stark: “The Republicans want to kill Social Security and Medicare and turn them into voucher systems.”

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

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

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

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.'