Washington, DC – Committee on Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Charles Boustany (R-LA) sent a letter to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Douglas Shulman requesting details about reports that the Obama Administration will give the IRS one-half billion dollars to implement the Democrats’ health care law.  In the letter, the… Read more

President Obama’s landmark health-care initiative, long touted as a means to control costs, will actually add more than $340 billion to the nation’s budget woes over the next decade, according to a new study by a Republican member of the board that oversees Medicare financing. The study is set to be released Tuesday by Charles Blahous, a conservative policy analyst whom Obama approved… Read more

Washington, DC - In a letter today, House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chairman Wally Herger (R-CA) and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Charles Boustany, M.D. (R-LA), along with Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-UT), and Committee member Tom Coburn (R-OK), asked the Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Marilyn Tavenner,… Read more

We are here today at the end of an extraordinary week in the history of the Democrats’ health care overhaul.  Last Friday marked the two-year anniversary of the law, and for three days this week the Supreme Court considered its constitutionality.  Today, the subcommittee will examine two coercive mandates at the center of the law.   Beginning in 2014, the individual… Read more

The choice is clear.  The House Republican Budget says “yes” to cutting government spending and creating jobs, while the President and Senate Democrats continue to say “no.”      ### Read more

A tax on medical devices and equipment tucked into the 2,400-page 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act illustrates the negative impact the legislation is already having on the U.S. economy. Quite simply, nothing is free. Many Democrats were hiding in the weeds Friday as the unpopular health-care overhaul marked its second anniversary, though a few people touted the many… Read more

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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

Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement after the House, in a bipartisan vote, passed H.R. 5, the "Protecting Access to Health Care Act,” which repeals the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB): “On the eve of the second anniversary of the Democrats’ health law, the House again took action to dismantle a dangerous Washington… Read more