WASHINGTON (AP) -- Another year, another round of exaggeration from President Barack Obama and his administration about health insurance rebates. In his speech defending his health care law Thursday, Obama said rebates averaging $100 are coming from insurance companies to 8.5 million Americans. In fact, most of the money is going straight to employers who provide health insurance,… Read more

Washington, D.C. – Today, the Ways and Means Committee released bipartisan proposals to reform Medicare.  This follows several hearings on Medicare reforms in the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee.  The draft legislative text can be found at www.waysandmeans.house.gov/entitlementreform. The proposal outlines three key policies to modernize cost-sharing within… Read more

Washington, DC – House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA), Ways and Means Subcommittee Chairman Charles Boustany Jr. M.D. (R-LA) and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) today in a letter to Acting IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel, requested new documents related to IRS… Read more

This is our second hearing on the controversial decision by the Treasury Department to delay for one year President Obama’s Affordable Care Act mandate forcing local businesses to offer government-approved health care or pay a tax.  Today, at last, we will hear directly from the Treasury Department.     What families and workers in my district are asking is this:… Read more

I rise today in support of H.R. 2667, a bill that delays the employer mandate.  While it is encouraging to see that the Administration has finally acknowledged the burdens ObamaCare is placing on employers, we must be a nation of laws, not blog posts, which is how the Administration announced the delay. While this bill provides employers with some temporary relief from the health… Read more

The Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, has lived its relatively short life shielded like a Chinese emperor by its unprecedented collection of mandates, subsidies and tax credits intended to extend government-subsidized health insurance to ever more Americans. Since it was signed into law in 2010, controversies surrounding the law have grown more complex rather than… Read more

Myth: “[T]he suggestion that the ACA is reducing full time employment is belied by the facts.”  White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, July 16, 2013 "Obamacare has been wonderful for America." Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), July 14, 2013 Fact: Today, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Q2 Small Business survey reinforced how out of touch this Administration is with… Read more

  By delaying the employer mandate for a year, the Obama administration has given Republicans an opportunity to advance the day that Obamacare is repealed. House Republicans should, as they are considering, call two successive votes, the first to put the employer-mandate delay into law and the second to delay the individual mandate as well. Democrats… Read more

Washington, D.C. – Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) announced that the Committee is accepting public comments on bipartisan proposals to reform Medicare and Social Security.  The announcement follows several hearings held by the Ways and Means Subcommittees on Health and Social Security as part of the Committee’s entitlement reform hearing… Read more

Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Members Todd Young (R-IN) and Tim Griffin (R-AR) introduced two pieces of legislation to delay the individual mandate and the employer mandate contained within ObamaCare to provide relief to American families and businesses. Commenting on the legislation, Chairman Camp stated, "The opposition to the law is growing across… Read more