INSULT: ObamaCare Took Over $750 Billion From Medicare and Raised Taxes By More Than $1 Trillion to Pay for New Health Care Subsidies. These subsidies are funded by more than $1 trillion in tax hikes, many of which are levied on middle-class families, and three-quarters of one trillion dollars in cuts to Medicare. INJURY: Administration Now Says People Receiving Subsidies Could… Read more

SHOT: Administration Says Individual Mandate Tax Will Only Affect Those Who Can Afford Health Care "This (analysis) doesn't change the basic fact that the individual responsibility policy will only affect people who can afford health care but choose not to buy it," said Erin Shields Britt of the Health and Human Services Department. "We're no longer going to… Read more

Washington, DC – Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) commented on today’s analysis released by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimating that, in 2016, 70 percent of the 5.9 million American taxpayers who will be forced to pay the Democrats’ new tax for not buying government-approved health insurance will have incomes that are low enough to qualify for… Read more

House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chairman Wally Herger (R-CA) today announced that the Subcommittee on Health will hold a hearing to examine the current status of the Medicare Advantage (MA) program and other health plans. The hearing will take place on Friday, September 21, 2012 in 1100 Longworth House Office Building, beginning at 9:30 A.M.  In view of the limited time… Read more

Good morning and welcome to our hearing on the direct deposit of Social Security benefits. Back in 1996, Congress passed the Debt Collection Improvement Act, which required electronic payment of federal benefits, including Social Security benefits.   Not only does the direct deposit of benefits help seniors avoid delayed, lost, or stolen checks, it saves taxpayers… Read more

Let me first say that our thoughts are with Health Subcommittee Chairman Wally Herger as he continues to recover in California from hip replacement surgery and a recent case of the flu.  I know I speak for all of us when I say that we wish him well and hope for a speedy recovery. We are here today to discuss implementation of the ObamaCare health insurance exchanges and related… Read more

Last week, former Senator Bob Kerrey said that one of the pillars of ObamaCare “will accelerate an already breaking-down employer-based system.”  He was talking about the employer mandate, a requirement that forces employers with 50 or more full-time equivalent employees to offer government-prescribed health insurance or pay a new tax.   Mr. Kerrey shares… Read more

Good morning and welcome to today’s hearing on the Internal Revenue Service’s implementation and administration of the President’s health care law. Before we begin this morning, it is appropriate to recall that eleven years ago, almost to the hour, our nation was savagely attacked.  After these 11 years, each of can recall exactly what we were doing at that time.  The… Read more

According to former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Fred Goldberg, and supported by the Obama Administration's own figures, ObamaCare "...in its current form will be a needless administrative and compliance quagmire for millions of Americans." Based on IRS estimates approved by the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at the… Read more

Today’s release of the Kaiser Family Foundation’s annual employer health benefits study confirms that President Obama’s most often mentioned health care promises continue to go unfulfilled.  More than two years after passage, health care premiums continue to increase and more than half of all workers have already lost the plan they had and liked.   Losing the… Read more