CHICAGO – Emergency rooms, the only choice for patients who can't find care elsewhere, may grow even more crowded with longer wait times under the nation's new health law. That might come as a surprise to those who thought getting 32 million more people covered by health insurance would ease ER crowding. It would seem these patients would be able to get routine health care by visiting… Read more

House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) today announced that the Subcommittee on Health will hold a hearing on the Obama Administration’s recent decision to delay the information reporting requirements and penalties associated with the employer mandate in the Affordable Care Act until 2015.  This hearing will allow the Subcommittee to focus… Read more

House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) today announced that the Subcommittee on Health will hold a hearing on the Obama Administration’s recent decision to delay the information reporting requirements and penalties associated with the employer mandate in the Affordable Care Act until 2015.  This hearing will allow the Subcommittee to focus… Read more

Washington, DC – Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today announced the promotions of Jill Schmalz to Senior Professional Staff and Sarah Swinehart to Press Secretary. “I want to congratulate Jill and Sarah on their hard-earned promotions,” said Camp.  “They provide significant contributions to the Ways and Means Committee to the benefit of our members and the entire House… Read more

Unfortunately, no amount of sunscreen or Aloe will relieve the pain of the Democrats’ impending 10 percent tax on indoor tanning beds,which goes into effect tomorrow, July 1.  This $2.7 billion tax will hit tens of thousands of small businesses and consumers and is just one of the many of the $569,000,000,000 in new health care taxes that violate the President’s promise not to raise taxes… Read more

As the New York Times noted, the new high-risk pool program — something the Obama Administration has desperately hyped in an effort to boost low approval ratings for its health care law — is so under-funded that it will cover “fewer than 10 percent of those denied health insurance because of pre-existing medical conditions."  According to the New York Times:  Insufficient Funds… Read more

Among the ironies of President Obama's style is that he regularly denounces big business even as big business has been one of his closest allies. But that may change, at least judging by the Business Roundtable's high-profile second thoughts on Tuesday. "We see a host of laws, regulations and other policies being enacted that impose a government prescription of how individual industries… Read more

To listen to President Barack Obama, corporate America is a juggernaut, a force of calculating capitalists who ceaselessly plot against his national reforms. To listen to Ivan Seidenberg is to wish the president were even a little right. Mr. Seidenberg, officially Verizon's CEO, moonlights as chairman of the influential Business Roundtable, the "association of chief executive officers of… Read more

The enactment of ObamaCare comes with a price tag that Americans simply cannot afford — massive tax increases that will kill jobs and hurt American families, debt that threatens to crush future economic growth and burden our children with a bill they can’t pay, and a health care system in which Washington, not patients and doctors, is in charge of medical decisions. This government… Read more

For the fourth time in six months, Democrats’ inability to properly manage the Medicare program is causing doctors to confront a 21 percent cut in their Medicare reimbursement rates.  In fact, this cut went into effect on June 1st, forcing Medicare to pay claims for physician services with the 21 percent cut.  In practical terms, this means that for a standard office visit, physicians are… Read more