Pete Stark: “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 They are people too, who will lose their care if this is repealed.”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.

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

I strongly agree with that and yet, here we are where repealing the ACA without a replacement as the Republicans have already begun to do, would cost roughly $350 billion through 2027.

It gave every shyster and promoter a loophole. We now have to keep rewriting the laws like the tax code.