Pete Stark: “Medicare should be given the authority to contract with certain hospitals for quality and volume--both to save money and…”

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.

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

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.

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