Washington, DC –Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today issued the following statement on Massachusetts voters’ referendum on the Democrats’ government takeover of health care in the historic election of Republican Scott Brown in one of the most liberal states in the nation: “Tonight’s election further echoed the loud opposition of the American people to the Democrats’ trillion dollar… Read more

Data from the non-partisan analysts at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) shows that by 2019 more than 1 in 5 workers would be affected by an unprecedented new tax on health benefits included in the Senate-passed Democrat health bill.  And that figure (1 in 5 workers being affected) will grow quickly over time.   Numerous media reports indicate that during their… Read more

Although Democrats think their health-care legislation faces smooth sailing to implementation, there is a rock dead ahead -- a constitutional challenge to the legislation's core. Democrats who assume it is constitutional to make it mandatory for Americans to purchase health insurance should answer some questions: Would it be constitutional for the government to legislate compulsory… Read more

Yesterday, leaders of the nation’s largest unions pointedly told the President that his plan to tax health care benefits for the first time was a bad idea. This morning, in a column printed by the Washington Post, Fortune magazine’s senior editor at large Allan Sloan, noted that upon closer inspection “you come away far less impressed” with the tax.  Why?  Primarily, because “the… Read more

PRESIDENT OBAMA is a great admirer of the Mayo Clinic. Time and again he has extolled it as an outstanding model of health care excellence and efficiency. “Look at what the Mayo Clinic is able to do,’’ the president proclaimed at a rally in September. “It’s got the best quality and the lowest cost of just about any system in the country. . . . We want to help the whole country learn from… Read more

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Some married couples would pay thousands of dollars more for the same health insurance coverage as unmarried people living together, under the health insurance overhaul plan pending in Congress. The built-in "marriage penalty" in both House and Senate healthcare bills has received scant attention. But for scores of low-income and middle-income couples, it could… Read more

C-SPAN Challenges Congress to Open Health Care Talks to TV Coverage The head of C-SPAN has implored Congress to open up the last leg of health care reform negotiations to the public, as top Democrats lay plans to hash out the final product among themselves. C-SPAN CEO Brian Lamb wrote to leaders in the House and Senate Dec. 30 urging them to open "all important… Read more

Today the Ranking Members of the House Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, and Ways and Means Committees sent the following letter to Speaker Pelosi urging open and fully bipartisan negotiations on reconciling the House and Senate health care bills. A signed copy of the letter can be viewed here.   January 5, 2010 The Honorable Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the House H-232, U.S.… Read more

Today, the Washington Post reported that with regard to health care, the President is “challenging his critics to identify any ‘gap’ between what he campaigned on last year and what Congress is on the verge of passing.” The President went on to tell the Post, “Every single criteria for reform I put forward is in this bill.” Well, Mr. President, below are just a fistful of ways the… Read more

Barack Obama's quest for historic health-care legislation has turned into a parody of leadership. We usually associate presidential leadership with the pursuit of goals that, though initially unpopular, serve America's long-term interests. Obama has reversed this. He's championing increasingly unpopular legislation that threatens the country's long-term interests. "This isn't about me,"… Read more