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 They are people too, who will lose their care if this is repealed.”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

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I rise in strong opposition to H.R. 436, one more piece of Republican legislation that protects special interests at the expense of working with families. This is just another message in an attempt to…

$8.6 trillion. Do you have any idea what the two wars we are fighting and not paying for costs over the same period of time?

I happen to be a fan of his bill to get rid of this idea that if a physician doesn't take Medicare, they are out of the system for 2 years.