Not long ago, Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY), now Chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, cast the deciding vote that would have enacted a new premium support program in Medicare.  That premium support model, contained in the House-passed Medicare prescription drug benefit legislation, is similar to the one contained in the House Republican Budget, which Israel is now… Read more

Today marks the two-year anniversary of when President Obama signed the Democrats’ health care bill into law.  Because the law was drafted in secret behind closed doors, it wasn’t entirely clear how the American people would fare under the new law.  However, now that we’ve had two years to “find out what’s in it,” the picture isn’t pretty.  As the list below shows, by… Read more

As one of their first acts of the 112th Congress, House Republicans voted unanimously (along with three House Democrats) to repeal the Democrats’ health care law in its entirety.  Although the Democrat-led Senate still refuses to take up legislation to fully repeal ObamaCare, House Republicans have not stopped looking for ways to defund it, resulting in more than $52 billion being… Read more

This week, the House of Representatives will vote to repeal the so-called Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). Created by the Democrats’ health care law, IPAB is a powerful board of 15 unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats whose sole job will be to save money by restricting access to health care for Medicare beneficiaries. The desire to repeal IPAB is strong and bipartisan… Read more

When the Democrats' health care bill was signed into law, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that it would increase spending on Medicaid and taxpayer-funded health insurance subsidies by $938 billion between 2010 and 2019.  However, as Republicans repeatedly pointed out, this actually hid the true costs of the health care law, because the Medicaid expansion… Read more

Today, the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) and Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released an updated analysis of the President’s health care law.  Below are five facts every American should know about this report: Spending jumps to $1.8 trillion – With America already borrowing 40 cents out of every dollar it spends, this massive increase in federal spending is… Read more

According to the Administration’s own budget, the cost of ObamaCare subsidies has jumped by $111 billion from just last year.  When Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) recently asked what the reason was for the massive increase in cost to taxpayers, Health and Human Services Secretary Sebelius said, “I really don’t know.”  Although they have yet to officially… Read more

Buried in Section 3403 of ObamaCare is a powerful board of unelected bureaucrats, the so-called “Independent Payment Advisory Board” (IPAB), whose sole job will be to save money by restricting access to health care for Medicare beneficiaries.  IPAB is required to achieve specified savings in years where Medicare spending is deemed “too high,” according to the Democrats’ health care… Read more

Today, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will testify before the Ways and Means Committee on the President’s FY 2013 budget proposal.  While the Administration’s budget proposal calls for another $1.3 billion in spending just to implement what a majority of Americans have determined is an unconstitutional health care law, the Obama Administration seems content to… Read more

Today, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius directly contradicted the position of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) case that bears her own name.  Responding to a question from Rep. Tom Reed (NY-29), the Secretary claimed that the individual mandate is "not per se a tax."  That may come as a huge surprise to the U.S. Department of Justice, which will make the… Read more