Pete Stark: “It seems to me if it is all right for our people in uniform, it ought to be all right for us old folks who haven't worn…”

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

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.

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

I think we have to ask ourselves, how do we do more good than harm in eliminating the compensation arrangements.