Pete Stark: “That is the question. I would therefore, Mr. Speaker, like to address a question to the author of the bill. Would she be…”

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 They are people too, who will lose their care if this is repealed.

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

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

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.