Impact on Individual Market Premiums for a Family in 2016 Under Various Democrat Proposals According to CBO Proposal   Change in Premiums Compared to Current Law Projections   Senate Democrats’ Bill (H.R. 3590)* … Read more

Washington, DC – Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement upon the announcement that U.S. Rep. Sander Levin (D-MI) will assume the chairmanship of the Ways and Means Committee. “I want to congratulate Sandy, though I know this is not how he or anyone would want to take over the reins of the committee.  Sandy and I have had a long and good working… Read more

Washington, DC- Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) and Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Wally Herger (R-CA) today made the following statements on President Obama’s remarks on moving the Democrats’ government-run health care bill forward through reconciliation: CAMP: “The American people have rejected the Democrats’ health care bill because it spends too much, taxes too… Read more

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Natural experiments are rare in politics, but few are as instructive as the prototype for ObamaCare that Massachusetts set in motion in 2006. The bills for "universal coverage" are now coming due, and it appears the state political class is prepared to do lasting damage to one of America's top-flight health-care systems. Last month, Democratic Governor Deval Patrick landed a neutron… Read more

To watch the video click here.  DAVE CAMP: Thank you, Leader Boehner and thank you Mr. President for the invitation today. I think as we focus this part of the conversation on cost, a lot of Americans say to me if you're really interested in controlling costs, maybe you shouldn't be spending a trillion dollars on health care as the senate and house bills do. Also cutting Medicare… Read more

VIDEO I                   VIDEO II CAMP ON CONTROLLING HEALTH CARE COSTS (Video I) “A lot of Americans say to me if you're really interested in controlling costs, maybe you shouldn't be spending a trillion dollars on health care as the Senate and House bills do.” “The non partisan actuaries at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services say on page 4 of their letter… Read more

The White House has made numerous claims about its latest health care proposal, which islargely based on the Senate Democrats’ health care bill. Those assertions, however, are contradicted by the analysis of that legislation by thenon-partisan and independent Congressional Budget Office, Joint Committee onTaxation and the Office of the Actuary at the Center for Medicare & Medicaid… Read more

Washington, DC – Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) and Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Wally Herger (R-CA) issued the following statements following the White House’s posting of their outline of the latest version of a $1 trillion government takeover of health care: Rep. Camp said, “The President told the American people we would see the details of his health care bill,… Read more

According to today’s New York Times, “The president’s bill would grant the federal Health and Human Services Secretary new authority to review, and to block, premium increases by private insurers, potentially superseding state insurance regulators.”  While the President claims the proposal is in reaction to recent, unacceptable insurance premium hikes, premiums would grow more costly for… Read more