Pete Stark: “The bill that I am introducing will correct the conditions that lead to the abuse of the program.”

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 They are people too, who will lose their care if this is repealed.

I think it is the first hearing that Republicans have held in the Ways and Means Committee to advance their plan to end the Medicare as we know it.

I am going to go on record again making clear the strong opposition that Democrats have to the House Republican proposal.

I dislike the notion that we need to increase costs for beneficiaries in order to fix the physician payment system.