Pete Stark: “Today I am introducing the first in a series of bills to modernize Medicare for the future: the 'Centers of Excellence…”

Without the Affordable Care Act, the health insurance trust fund would expire eight years earlier, in 2016.

I happen to be a fan of his bill to get rid of this idea that if a physician doesn't take Medicare, they are out of the system for 2 years.

The legislation we are considering today is quite possibly the moral low-point of this House Republican Majority. Not only does it negate a law that was agreed to just last year to cut the deficit, it makes unconscionable cuts to safety…

we are not being asked to contribute anything to pay for that war. Lower income people maybe are.