With today's release of the President’s health care outline, it is clear Democrats continue to ignore the concerns raised by the American people – primarily that Democrat proposals will drive up the costs of health insurance, slash Medicare benefits for millions of seniors, and increase job-killing taxes when unemployment is hovering around 10 percent. Below is a quick comparison of… Read more

Washington, DC - Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) will deliver the weekly Republican address and will attend the White House Summit on health care next Thursday. In his address this week, Rep. Camp echoes the American people's request to reduce the cost of health care noting that, "the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office projects that the Republican health care bill… Read more

Today’s New York Times details a fatal flaw in the Democrats’ health bills: “Facing relentless fiscal pressure and exploding demand for government health care, virtually every state is making or considering substantial cuts in Medicaid, even as Congressional Democrats push to add 15 million people to the rolls.”  Keep in mind, Congressional Democrats get nearly half of their reduction in… Read more

Washington, DC - Responding to the Obama Administration's report issued today on the rising cost of health insurance, Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) said:   “The reported premium increases are unacceptable. Unfortunately, the reforms Democrats in Congress are pursuing would actually make the current situation worse by making coverage more expensive. By contrast, House… Read more

GOVERNMENT WARNING: Democrats’ Health Bills Dangerous to Your Financial Health Taxpayers and Privately Insured Both to Pay More   A new report by the Obama Administration’s own actuaries in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), published in Health Affairs, details two troubling and unsustainable trends in health care spending: National Health Expenditures… Read more

Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI), author of the Common Sense Health Care Reforms and Affordability Act, called on the President to suspend his partisan speechmaking and start bipartisan work on health care reform. “The President is traveling the country making partisan speeches, while Americans’ health insurance premiums continue to skyrocket. This… Read more

  January 27, 2010     Floor of the United States House of Representatives     Secret Meeting Room Elsewhere in the Capitol   … Read more

Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI), along with House Republican Leaders, Ranking Members of Energy & Commerce and Education & Labor, and Rep. Buchanan (R-FL) today sent a letter to President Obama asking that he ensure that any further health care negotiations be transparent and televised on C-SPAN as he promised, rather than conducted behind closed doors between… Read more

President Obama, in an interview with Diane Sawyer, attempted to clarify his role in the health care legislative debate but rewrote history in doing so. Regardless of his assertions, the reality is President Obama was Chief Dealmaker, making sweetheart deals behind closed doors with the most powerful health care lobbyists in Washington.* Here are Three of the Major Backroom Deals… Read more

While the White House keeps changing their job-calculation methods in a desperate effort to claim their so-called stimulus bill is working, Americans are still asking: Where are the jobs? Facts are facts. Last year, the Obama administration and congressional Democrats spent nearly $1 trillion we don’t have on a misguided, wasteful and ineffective stimulus package. At the time, Democrats… Read more