Pete Stark: “Mr. Speaker, I gather that the majority feels that we should move ahead rapidly with this bill, and I begin to sense…”

But these projections have turned out to be incorrect. And since the passage of the ACA, Medicare Advantage enrollment has increased, and the premiums have decreased.

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

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.

What is shocking to me is that you want to spend even more than that and yet leave 30 million people without health care.