CAMP: “Americans' health care is too important and too complex to risk on one gigantic bill that has been written behind closed doors.”   Washington, DC – Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today released the following quote in reaction to the Democrats finally revealing details of their health care bill, after nearly three months of closed door… Read more

Today, the White House is set to host another publicity event that is designed to obscure the fact that employers—especially small businesses—do not support the Democrats’ health care reform.  Here is a small sampling of why employers find the Democrats' plans "frightening." (Emphasis added) Small business owners on Democrats' health care reform proposals: “There's so much… Read more

MYTH Today, Speaker Pelosi stated that the House Democrats' 1,990 page bill, "meets President Obama's call to keep the costs under $900 billion over 10 years and it insures 36 million more Americans." 1 FACT The non-partisan, independent Congressional Budget Office (CBO) states that the cost of H.R. 3962, the House Democrats' health care bill, is "a gross total of $1.055… Read more

            Sources:  Joint Committee on Taxation, Congressional Budget Office        ###     Read more

Washington, DC – Flanked by seniors and House Republican Leaders, Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today discussed a recently released analysis from the nonpartisan experts at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) showing the House Democrats’ health care bill could harm seniors’ medical care. “The conclusions of this report confirm what we have… Read more

Congressman Wally Herger (R-CA), Ranking Member of the Ways & Means Subcommittee on Health, was joined by Congressman Dave Reichert (R-WA) and Congresswoman Ginny Brown-Waite (R-FL) in questioning the political self-interests of AARP’s endorsement of legislation that will result in significant Medicare cuts for seniors.  They addressed these concerns in a letter to AARP CEO Barry… Read more

Obama Administration officials have repeatedly emphasized the need to "bend the curve" of health-care costs. Reducing increases in health spending, they argued, was essential to controlling future federal budget deficits and making insurance affordable for most Americans. Now, in the first comprehensive evaluation of one of the major congressional health reform bills, analysts find that… Read more

  The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) yesterday wrote that , “Total national health expenditures under [H.R. 3200] would increase by an estimated 2.7 percent in calendar year 2019.” Over the next 10 years, CMS predicts overall national health expenditures will jump by 2.1 percent, or $750.3 billion. To review the other CMS findings including Medicare cuts, tax… Read more

Additional Findings Will Especially Alarm Seniors and Patients Worried About Access to Health Care   Washington, DC – In another blow to Democrats’ push for a massive government takeover of the nation’s health care system, Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today released findings from a memo from the Obama Administration’s Chief Actuary for the Centers for Medicare and… Read more

At the request of House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI), the Office of the Actuary (OACT) at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a federal agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, released their expert and independent analysis of the House Democrats’ health reform bill.  Here is a summary of its key findings: America’s appetite for… Read more