Pete Stark: “I introduce the Save Money for Prescription Drug Research Act of 2000, a bill to deny tax deductions to drug companies…”

In 2007 Pete Stark wrote that he believed that, on balance, the law may have done more harm than good.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that repealing the major coverage provisions of the Affordable Care Act will terminate coverage for--sorry, not 30, but 32 million people.

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.