Pete Stark: “I would support making alliances and coops available to people to help them do what the President does. I don't think it…”

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that repealing the major coverage provisions of the Affordable Care Act will terminate coverage for--sorry, not 30, but 32 million people.

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.'

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.

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 They are people too, who will lose their care if this is repealed.