. >> this week, california congress pete stark chair of the house ways and means committee on health discusses legislation working its way through congress. he talks about a proposal that would establish a public health insurance plan to compete with private plans. >> at the end of the day, if you choose to have competition and you choose to have a plan that is dependable and affordable, you can't do it without having a public machine there. that creates the competition for the private plans. so, yes, there will be a public plan in the bill. will the people vote for it? i don't know who wants to go home at next year's primary and say i voted against plan that will provide, let's say, 30,000 people in my district, most of whom are nonwhite, poor, most working, most don't have a way now to get insurance, i voted against giving them a way to pay their doctor and hospital for medical care. i don't think that is a vote many people want to make. >> newsers with california congressman pete stark. >> people don't want to think of roosevelt's conservation as a policy as much as passion. he pu

. >> this week on "newsmakers," congressman pete stark discusses legislation working its way through congress. he talks about one proposal that would establish a public health insurance plan to compete with private plans. >> at the end of the day, if you choose to have competition and you choose to have a plan that is dependable and affordable, you cannot do it without having a public plan there. that creates the competition for the private plan. so yes, there will be a public plan in the bill. will the people vote for? i don't know who wants to go home in next year's primary and say i voted against the plan that is going to provide 30,000 people in my district, most of whom are nonwhite, most of whom are poor, most of who are working, and most to do not have a way now to get insurance. i don't think that is a vote many people want to make. >> california congressman pete stark, tomorrow morning at 10:00 and 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> people do not want to think of roosevelt's conservation as a policy as much as a passion. he put aside 240, almost to uttered 40 million acres of w

if i said all of you in your listening audience, january 1, 2010, your health insurance and and pete stark is bringing you a new plan. there would be a million people ready to mail my height to the capital before. they like what they have. i like medicare. people like lacrosse. -- people like blue cross. if you like what you have, you can keep it. for those people who are afraid they will get laid-off, or the chrysler employees, when they go bankrupt and wipe out their plan, they are the ones who will benefit in the sense that they can now go and get a plan, not an individual plan that may have exemptions or pre-existing conditions or price them out of the market if there is a history of high blood pressure, that will be gone. they will be go when to get a group rate basically of a plan that will provide in benefits they cannot lose. >> if people like what they have and they will keep it, this -- will this bill to -- will this bill do anything to make the coverage better or less expensive? >> we hope so. that is through the public plan. if the rates are set, we will force the competition.

this week on our program, "newsmakers," representative pete stark of california is one of the authors of the health care draft that the democrats announced yesterday. and he talks about whether new taxes are needed to pay for the health plan. >> i would say there's no consensus. nobody likes to raise taxes. so that i would be misleading you if i said there's going to be a vat or -- there will be i'm quite sure at least i would favor this an increase for people making more than $250,000 a year. i would suggest that's the president's suggestion. we're going to adopt that, i'm pretty sure. >> an income tax increase? >> i think so. >> but other than that, i suppose, which i think is maybe fair to say was something on the agenda irrespective of health care. is it your goal and do you think it's attainable, to finance the bill at the end of the process without additional taxes? >> i don't know. i don't know. >> you can see the entire interview with representative pete stark on "newsmakers" sunday, tomorrow morning at 10:00 and also 6:00 p.m. on c-span. also, more regarding the discussion on

pete stark agrees the progress rapidly another 35% of the health i.t. because we would tie physicians to their hospitals and have systems integrated but that's another amendment. the whole point is we are looking at it from washington looking out and what i'm trying to do is get us to look at it for now in the country and look in. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> senator mikulski. >> let's go to the actual amendment, not what a aspect of it does or may be an interesting idea or whenever. if you go to the front page of the colburn amendment, it says strike subtitle be of title to and insert the following. so he strikes the entire section with a title deed which goes to the patient safety research center, community health teams, trauma system reform and others and eliminates the agency with health research quality so that is what this amendment does. it strikes and inserts essentially an i.t. package. so that's number one. i think that our quality section had a lot of work and it should stand. second, during the course of the deliberations are held six hear

won't have their cut which is why i suspect they'll help us. >> representative pete stark, democrat from california, member of the ways and means committee, thanks for joining us. >> go in good health, thank you very much. >> we continue the conversation on "newsmakers" with jeff reyoung, health care reporter or "the hill" newspaper. how is this going to be paid for? what did you learn? >> the first thing, i would bet the over on $1 trillion over 10 years, despite what the congressman said. they've got a large program of subsidies for people to buy insurance, they have a big extension of medicaid and improvements to medicare, it's an expensive bill, it'll be over $1 trillion, and they're still struggling with ways to pay for it. >> if i could continue that, that guess is substantiated by what's happened on the senate side. the pieces of legislation aren't the same but two different senate committees have been communicating with the congressional budget office to figure out how to cover everything. most of the must be is expanding coverage to at least some portion of the 40-something mill

. >> this week, on c-span newsmakers, california congressman pete stark discusses legislation going through congress. he talks about a proposal that would establish a public health insurance plan to complete -- to compete with private plans. >> if you choose to have competition, and you choose to have a plan that is dependable and a portable, you cannot do it w

. >> this week on c-span's "news makers," representative pete stark discusses legislation. he talks about one proposal that would establish a health insurance plan that would compete with private insurance plans. >> at the end of the day if you choose to have a plan that's dependable and affordable, you can't do it without having a public plan there. and that creates the competition for the private plans. so, yes, there will be a public plan in the bill. will people vote for it? i don't know? who wants to go home in next year's primary and say i voted against a plan that's going to provide 30,000 people in my district, most of whom are

pete stark, chairman of the house at ways subcommittee on health discusses legislation working its way through congress. he talks about one proposal that will establish a public health insurance plan to compete with private plans. >> at the end of the day, if you choose to have competition, and you choose to have a plan that is dependable and affordable, you can't do it without having a public plan there. that creates the competition for the private. yes, there will be a public plan in the bill. will people vote for it? i don't know. who wants to go home and next year's primary and say, i voted against the plan that is going to provide 30,000 people in my district -- and most of whom are nonwhite, most of whom are poor, most of whom are working, i voted against giving them away to pay their doctors for medical care. i don't think that is a vote many people want to make. >> tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern here on c- span. >> people did not want to think of roosevelt's conservation as policy so much as passion. so now, as people are talking about environmentalism, roosevelt

pete stark discusses legislation working its way through congress.

gentlemen i also want to take the prerogative to introduce a friend and guest the health subcommittee pete stark from california is present my understanding we discuss that he will be an observer of the hearing and does not intend to ask any questions and appreciate your indulgence and just to say to my friend who i know approaches this is a good faith, chairman miller and i intend to meet as early as today with members of the minority caucus to talk about healthcare reform before there is any markka before mid we look forward to your participation. think that was scheduled just this morning but just let you know, it is happening. also about timing, i sat in this room 15 years ago, there is an attempt to get something done about this problem and it failed. there was not a lot done after that which i think was another failure. i understand there are questions about schedules but i would simply say i don't think the problem is we have gone too quickly but not quickly enough. that is something. we will turn on to our chairman of the judiciary committee someone i have always regarded as a model of i

. >> this week, california congressman pete stark, chair of the house ways and means subcommittee discusses legislation working through congress. he talks about a proposal that would establish a public health insurance plan to compete with private plans. >> at the end of the day, if you choose to have competition, then you choose to have a plan that is dependable and affordable, you cannot do without having a public plan which creates the competition for the private plan. yes, there will be a public plan in the bill. will people vote for it? i do not know -- who wants to go home in next year's primary and a say i voted against a plan that will provide state 30,000 people in my district most of whom are nonwhite, poor, most of whom are working and do not have a way to get insurance -- i voted against having a way to get them to see doctors and provide medical care. i don't think it will be popular. today at 6:00 p.m. eastern. >> people do not want to think of roosevelt's conservation as a policy as much as a passion. he put aside almost 240 million and acres. now as people talk about these g

and commerce committee, chairman john dingell and a respected-- perspective subcommittee chairs, pete stark from the ways and means committee, frank balloon from managing comers and raw benders from the education and labor committee. today marks a historic moment in american assurgent quest to fix their broken health insurance system. for the past six months are three committees, the committees that of jurisdiction over healthcare and the house of work together an unprecedented manner to develop and present a healthcare reform discussion draft for congress and the american people that embodies president of hamas call for fundamental change in our healthcare system. president obama has assets to drop the reform bill that will control costs, guarantee choice and ensure quality and affordable healthcare coverage for all americans. i believe that our draft lives up to those essential principles. our discussion craft reflects months of hard work and the views of many of our colleagues. we have met with their respective democratic republican committee members, with their senate colleagues, with t

congressman pete stark complained that the private sector was siphoning off all the healthy people. that's why he was able to do it for 95%, for 5% less than medicare was doing. when they created medicare advantage, they paid the private sector a little more, about 13% on average. they're complaining about that, that they're overreimbursing them. the administration and congress want to cut those reimbursement rates. the point being, if the private sec for is doing a good job against the public plan, they'll come in and tchange -- change the rules so it didn't do it. it's going to be a rich benefits package. we've already seen that. it's going to make it very expensive. as a result, health care spending is going to explode. now, because of the public option and the dissatisfaction with it, there's been a sort of a public option like proposal out there called co-ops. maybe we can move to co-ops and find some kind of middle ground. we've already got co-ops out there. there's trade associations that sell health insurance. various kinds of foreign groups and so forth that work as co-ops