Washington, DC – Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today issued the following statement in reaction to the news that former Ways and Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski (D-IL) passed away. “Dan Rostenkowski was larger than life, a strong chairman and a legislator who was able to work across party lines to produce significant results for the American people – most notably… Read more

Washington, D.C. – Congressman Wally Herger (R-CA), Ranking Member of the Ways & Means Subcommittee on Health, today filed a discharge petition on H.R. 5424, the Reform Americans Can Afford Act, which would repeal the Democrats’ health care law and replace it with commonsense solutions to bring down health care costs. House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH), Republican Whip Eric… Read more

Every year, Medicare trustees deliver an impenetrable report that answers a single headline-worthy question: How soon will Medicare run out of money? Last year, the trustees estimated that one part of Medicare would be insolvent alarmingly soon — 2017. But then came the new health care law, sold to Americans as a way to reduce costs and shore up Medicare. The trustees released a new… Read more

With unemployment just under 10% and companies sitting on their cash, you would think that sooner or later job growth would take off. I think it's going to be later—much later. Here's why. Meet Sally (not her real name; details changed to preserve privacy). Sally is a terrific employee, and she happens to be the median person in terms of base pay among the 83 people at my little company… Read more

Washington, DC – Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI), Social Security Subcommittee Ranking Member Sam Johnson (R-TX) and Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Wally Herger (R-CA) today made the following statements on the release of the 2010 Social Security and Medicare Trustees Reports: Rep. Camp: “The reports of the Social Security and Medicare Trustees released today again… Read more

The 2010 Medicare Trustees report confirms what employers have been saying for months – that the Democrats’ health care law will result in a substantial and marked decline in employer-sponsored retiree drug coverage.  In 2009, 20 percent of seniors participating in Part D did so through a retiree plan offered by their former employer who received a federal subsidy.  These… Read more

President Obama and Democrats’ grand experiment with Americans’ health care is already backfiring just mere months after becoming law.  A survey of 459 employers by Fidelity Investments, a leading provider of employee benefits, finds that 1 in 5 employers are “seriously” evaluating dropping health benefits for their employees.  Furthermore, 1 in 2 small businesses are bracing for higher… Read more

Washington, DC – While rank-and-file Democrats lined up behind a Republican effort to repeal the onerous, job-killing 1099 tax provision found in the new health care law, Democrat leaders doomed H.R. 5982 to failure by including billions of dollars in new job-killing tax increases on American employers.  Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following quote after the… Read more

Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) will offer an amendment to H.R. 5893 that, if passed, will repeal an onerous and job-killing reporting requirement contained in the Democrats’ health overhaul. Beginning in 2012, small businesses will be required to file a 1099 form to the IRS for every business and individual to which they make total payments of… Read more

Dr. Donald Berwick, the pediatrician President Obama installed at the helm of Medicare and Medicaid without Congressional input, has said he is "in love with the NHS," Britain's government-run health system.  Unable to contain his true feelings, Dr. Berwick went on to say that NHS was "such a seductress," and that it was "not just a national treasure, it is a global treasure.” Well,… Read more