Pete Stark: “The hospitals are often second-rate. Sometimes illegal. And it takes profitable business away from community hospitals.”

The home health copayment, for instance, I think is largely ascribed to be used by old, sick, poor widows, and raising the price that they have to pay is just one more Republican effort to deny equal rights to women.

Medicare is one of our Nation's best programs, but it has always been a work in progress, and it needs ongoing fine-tuning and changing to keep it relevant.

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

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