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

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

Those 43,000 people are not just anecdotes. They are people too, who will lose their care if this is repealed.

But these projections have turned out to be incorrect. And since the passage of the ACA, Medicare Advantage enrollment has increased, and the premiums have decreased.

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