A plan to slash more than $500 billion from future Medicare spending -- one of the biggest sources of funding for President Obama's proposed overhaul of the nation's health-care system -- would sharply reduce benefits for some senior citizens and could jeopardize access to care for millions of others, according to a government evaluation released Saturday. The report, requested by House… Read more

Washington, DC – Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today released an analysis he requested from the nonpartisan, independent experts at the Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).  The report shows national health care costs will increase significantly – by $289 billion – if the House Democrats' bill (H.R. 3962) was… Read more

Pelosi's Health Care Bill:"It creates a vast new entitlement, financed by European levels of taxation on business and individuals" Speaker Nancy Pelosi defied policy logic and public opinion late Saturday night, ramming through the House a nearly 2,000-page health-care leviathan that counts as the biggest expansion of the federal government since the New Deal. As President Obama likes… Read more

CAMP: "This is not a moderate bill. It's a bill that really does have a government takeover of our health care system, raises taxes significantly, does nothing to control costs in health care...and ultimately will cost us jobs."  ### Read more

Mr. Speaker, Republicans have listened to the American people; it is clear from the Speaker’s health care bill, the Democratic majority has not. The Speaker crafted this bill behind closed doors and added one-thousand pages that have never been before a committee or had any input from the American people.  Just yesterday we confirmed Americans could face five years in jail if… Read more

Madame Speaker, The American people deserve and demand a common sense approach to health care reform that: 1) Makes health care reform affordable, 2) Guarantees all Americans, regardless of a pre-existing condition, have access to affordable health care and 3) Does so without raising taxes, without increasing the deficit and without the federal government making health care… Read more

Washington, DC –  Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today voted against Speaker Pelosi’s one-trillion dollar government takeover of health care.  After the House vote, Camp issued the following statement: “Speaker Pelosi chose not to listen to the American people and instead forced through a bill that will cause millions of Americans to lose their current health care, slash… Read more

ROLL CALL: Rep. Velazquez and the CHC will vote against the bill if “language restricting the rights of illegal immigrants to buy insurance is ADDED to the bill.”  (Emphasis added, but not restrictions on illegal immigrants getting taxpayer subsidies.) THE HILL: “Congressional Hispanics have threatened to vote against the bill because of a last-minute threat from within the Democratic… Read more

$154 Billion Tax on Small Businesses. The bill would impose a 5.4 percent “surtax” on the modified adjusted gross income of individuals – including many small employers who file as individuals.  According to the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT), one-third of this tax increase (about $154 billion) would fall on the income of small businesses – making it harder for them to meet… Read more

(Remarks as Prepared) Madame Chairman, The people have spoken: they do not want a trillion-dollar government plan to replace their health care.  Republicans have listened to the American people; it is clear from the Speaker’s health care bill, H.R. 3962, the Democratic majority has not. The bill Speaker Pelosi crafted over the last three months, behind closed doors – which doubled… Read more