Pete in the News

NEWS: Bloomberg Business Week: Prostate Patients Suffer as Money Overwhelms Best Therapy

When Max Calderon learned he had prostate cancer in 2010, his urologist recommended radiation therapy at a clinic in Salinas, California. Calderon had just turned 77 and wasn’t an ideal candidate for the treatment, according to national guidelines established by 21 U.S

NEWS: San Jose Mercury News: Fremont News Briefs for Oct. 5

U.S. Rep. Pete Stark, D-Fremont, was named a 2012 Champion of Children this week by the First Focus Campaign for Children. The campaign is a national bipartisan children's advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C.

NEWS: Inside Bay Area: Stark Targets Medicare Glitch for Same-Sex Couples

A bill introduced today by Rep. Pete Stark aims to close a loophole deep in Medicare’s rules that has been costing seniors who are in same-sex marriages.

NEWS: Inside Bay Area: Pols decry voter ID laws on Constitution Day

Two Bay Area members of Congress used the Constitution’s birthday today as an occasion to decry voter ID laws – which they call voter-suppression efforts – in some crucial presidential swing states.

NEWS: CQ TODAY: Estimates for Removing Numbers From Medicare Cards Expected in 6 Months

A Medicare official agreed to give Congress new cost estimates in six months for a proposal to remove Social Security numbers from beneficiaries’ Medicare cards.

NEWS: New York Times: Medical Debt Collector to Settle Suit for $2.5 Million

Accretive Health, one of the nation’s largest collectors of medical debt, has agreed to pay $2.5 million to the Minnesota state attorney general’s office to settle accusations that it violated a federal law requiring hospitals to provide emergency care, even if patients cannot afford to pay.

NEWS: LA Times: Trauma in the ER: Who covers the uninsured?

Within days, the Supreme Court will rule on whether the new law is constitutional. If the law is upheld, millions of newly insured patients will have many of their hospital bills covered by insurance. But if the law, or just the insurance mandate, is struck down, those bills will be passed on to taxpayers, hospitals and privately insured patients, as they have been for the last quarter century.

Roll Call Op-Ed: Stark and Cassidy: Dyslexia Is Bipartisan Issue With Solutions

As parents of children with dyslexia, we understand firsthand the struggle that millions of Americans with the condition face as they try to reach their full potential.

NEWS: New York Times: In Congress, a Move to Look Into a Medical Debt Collector

A California representative is calling for an investigation into Accretive Health, one of the nation’s largest collectors of medical debt, for potentially violating a federal law that requires hospitals to provide emergency care regardless of citizenship, legal status or the ability to pay.

NEWS: Huffington Post: House Republicans Oppose Bill That Would Help Low-Income Moms Stay Home Like Ann Romney

House Republicans emphatically agree with Mitt Romney that stay-at-home moms work just as hard as anybody in the workforce. But when it comes to applying that standard to mothers on welfare, they draw the line.

NEWS: The Hill: Tax expert: GOP plan would result in 350K fewer people with health insurance

A proposal from House Republicans that would require people to reimburse subsidies they're not entitled to under the healthcare law would result in 350,000 fewer people gaining insurance, according to the chief of staff for the Joint Committee on Taxation. Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.), the top Democrat on the Health subcommittee, introduced an amendment that would prevent the provision from applying in years when the secretary of Health and Human Services determines that it "will or is likely to result in a decrease in the number of insuranced individuals during the year." It failed along party lines.

NEWS: HuffingtonPost: WORK Act Would Give Low-Income Moms The Same Option As Ann Romney (For 3 Years)

A handful of House Democrats, encouraged by the recent bipartisan agreement that stay-at-home moms should be considered just as hard working as anyone in the workforce, will introduce legislation to apply that standard to mothers on welfare as well.

NEWS: Washington Post: House Democrats decry Bloomberg’s ‘underhanded’ response to concerns over NYPD Muslim spying

Ten House Democrats, including a member of the party’s leadership and lawmakers who oversee intelligence and homeland security matters, have criticized New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg for his “underhanded and unprofessional” response to criticism of the New York Police Department’s spying programs.

NEWS: NBCBayArea.com: A Tale of Two Budgets

In some respects, the battle for control of the 113th Congress begins today. And it includes a distinctive Northern California hue. That's because the 75-member Progressive Democratic Caucus has released its budget proposal for the 2013 fiscal year.

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