Pete Stark: “Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this hearing today to try and explore how the private sector payers are rewarding…”

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

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.'

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 They are people too, who will lose their care if this is repealed.

I think we have to ask ourselves, how do we do more good than harm in eliminating the compensation arrangements.