Pete Stark: “My good friend from California, the Ranking Member, Mr. Stark, characterized IPAB as a 'mindless rate-cutting machine…”

I would first of all like to try to make it the protocol in this committee--I am not succeeding too well--that we strike from our lexicon the word 'disability.'

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

First, you could pay the penalty and remain uninsured.

we are not being asked to contribute anything to pay for that war. Lower income people maybe are.