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…”

If we had vouchers, or whatever you want to call premium support things, the Medicare would stop being a defined benefit plan and become a defined contribution plan, would it not?

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 can count on maybe one hand the Democrats who support vouchers or similar proposals.

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.'