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

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

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.

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

What is shocking to me is that you want to spend even more than that and yet leave 30 million people without health care.