As the Washington Post today reported, the chairman of the Business Roundtable “accused the president and Democratic lawmakers Tuesday of creating an ‘increasingly hostile environment for investment and job creation.’” In a letter from the Business Roundtable and The Business Council to Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag, these business leaders stated that policies… Read more

This week, the Business Roundtable (BRT) and The Business Council, representing American companies with more than 12 million employees and comprising nearly a third of the total value of the U.S. stock markets, issued a dire warning to the White House Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag about the consequences of the Democrats’ health law.  According to these key… Read more

Today, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) echoed the concerns previously stated by the Obama Administration’s own Medicare actuaries that the high-risk pools created in the Democrats’ health care overhaul will be vastly underfunded and help very few Americans with pre-existing health conditions. Specifically, CBO stated the high-risk pool “subsidies would not be… Read more

Washington, DC – Ways and Means Republicans today sent a letter to Chairman Sander Levin (D-MI) requesting a hearing with Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on the implementation of the new health care law and to get answers to why HHS has missed numerous statutorily-mandated deadlines. Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) said, “While the Administration is focused… Read more

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. There is broad agreement that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) needs to do far more to combat waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicare.  In fact, fraud is such an issue in Medicare that the Chief Counsel to the HHS Inspector General, who is testifying on the second panel today, said that, “a lot of career criminals and organized criminals have… Read more

Chairman Stark, thank you for yielding time.  And thank you Chairman Lewis and Ranking Member Herger for your thoughtful statements.  Medicare fraud has been and continues to be a very serious problem.  It costs the American taxpayers billions of dollars every year.  It depletes the Medicare trust funds of money that is desperately needed if we hope to continue providing adequate health… Read more

Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) will offer a proposal on the House floor to repeal the requirement forcing Americans to buy government-approved health insurance (the “individual mandate”). “The American people have been speaking out in opposition to the Democrats’ health bill which forces them to choose between paying a new tax or purchasing health… Read more

With the unemployment rate stuck at nearly 10 percent, far too many Americans and small businesses are struggling to get by.  While the bill before us contains some limited benefits, it does little to help small businesses create the jobs so many Americans desperately need. The Motion to Recommit keeps the underlying bill intact and provides real help to Americans by repealing one of the… Read more

The promises made about health reform suffered two more hits this week as more and more troubling truths about the impact the Democrats’ recently enacted health care overhaul will have on the American people were revealed – health care costs are continuing to skyrocket and more than half of all Americans with employer-provided health insurance could lose their current health… Read more

Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today wrote to Douglas H. Shulman, the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), asking whether the IRS would engage in aggressive outreach to notify Americans affected by the health care law’s new tax on tanning services that takes effect on July 1st. Noting that the IRS recently sent over 4 million… Read more