Pete Stark: “The incentive for gross over-utilization of services in these kinds of deals is enormous.”

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 They are people too, who will lose their care if this is repealed.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.

Two leading doctors at Harvard Medical School have concluded that 43,000 people will be killed annually if the ACA is repealed without a replacement.

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.