Despite former-Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s claim that the Democrats’ health care law would create “400,000 jobs almost immediately,” a new study revealed that over 70 percent of small businesses cite the health care law as a major obstacle to job creation.  The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Q2 Small Business Study of over 1,200 small business executives also found that… Read more

The Congressional Budget Office predicts that approximately 20 million Americans will either pay the tax or be forced to buy insurance that they otherwise wouldn't purchase.  Only two states in the U.S. have more than 20 million people – California and Texas.  So despite the Obama Administration’s claim… Read more

(Remarks as Prepared) Good morning.  Writing for the Majority in the ObamaCare decision handed down last month, Chief Justice John Roberts quoted the Lopez decision writing, “At the very least, we should ‘pause to consider the implications of the Government’s arguments’ when confronted with such new conceptions of federal power.”   Whether or not one agrees or… Read more

(Remarks as Prepared) We are here today to repeal a law that is both fundamentally flawed and overwhelmingly unpopular.  The problem with this law – among its many faults – is it puts government at the center of health care decisions; not doctors and patients.  Instead of families and employers deciding what coverage is best for them, the Secretary of Health and Human… Read more

WASHINGTON – Can the Internal Revenue Service police President Obama's health care mandate while simultaneously collecting all the taxes for running the federal government? The question is being renewed in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision upholding most of the 2010 Affordable Care Act as a tax issue rather than one of interstate commerce. Nearly 2½ years before taxpayers… Read more

The Obama Administration seems to have amnesia.  Less than a week ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the individual mandate is constitutional and noted that the basis for the ruling was an argument put forth by the Obama Administration: that the individual mandate is a tax.  However, at least twice over the last week, the Obama Administration has seemed to deny the “it’s a… Read more

Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement on the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on the constitutionality of the Democrats' health care law: “While I respect the ruling of the Court, they have granted the federal government unlimited power to intrude on the private lives of American citizens.  I do not believe… Read more

Health Care Costs and Impact on Americans $1,200:  Increase in health care premiums for an average American family in the year following enactment of the Democrats’ health care law. 13 percent:  Premium increase, in 2016, for individuals and families who buy coverage on their own – compared to if the law hadn’t been enacted at all. $118… Read more

Washington, DC – Ways and Means Republicans today demanded the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) provide a full accounting for the cost of implementing and administering the Democrats’ health care law.  Two recent reports from independent government agencies raised questions about the IRS’s ability to account for the taxpayer dollars used to implement the Democrats’ health… Read more

Below is a list of statements from key Democrats arguing time and again that, without the unconstitutional individual mandate, the Democrats’ health care law doesn’t work. President Barack Obama "Unless everybody does their part, many of the insurance reforms we seek — especially requiring insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions — just can’t be… Read more