Despite President Obama’s claims to the contrary on Sunday morning news programs, he and Congressional Democrats are proposing massive cuts to Medicare, which will reduce benefits and options that improve the quality of care for seniors.  As previously detailed, a total of 6 million seniors will be denied access to an affordable Medicare Advantage (MA) plan because of H.R. 3200, including… Read more

WASHINGTON – Memo to President Barack Obama: It's a tax. Obama insisted this weekend on national television that requiring people to carry health insurance — and fining them if they don't — isn't the same thing as a tax increase. But the language of Democratic bills to revamp the nation's health care system doesn't quibble. Both the House bill and the Senate Finance Committee proposal… Read more

Democrats have repeatedly pledged H.R. 3200 will expand insurance options and preserve Americans’ ability to keep the insurance they have and like.  However, as previously detailed, a total of 6 million seniors will be denied access to an affordable Medicare Advantage (MA) plan because of H.R. 3200, including 3 million seniors who will lose the plan they currently have.  According to a… Read more

Washington, D.C.- Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI ) today made the following statement regarding Senator Baucus's draft health care bill: “It is clear the arbitrary time limits imposed by the Senate Democrat Leadership hindered Senator Baucus’ ability to produce a bipartisan bill that the American people could support.  That is unfortunate.  The Chairman should have been… Read more

Democrats have repeatedly pledged H.R. 3200 will expand insurance options and preserve Americans’ ability to keep the insurance they have and like.  However, the language in H.R. 3200 doesn’t support this empty rhetoric. Today, 11 million seniors, or 22% of all Medicare beneficiaries, are enrolled in a Medicare health plan, called Medicare Advantage.  Under current law, the… Read more

  As Speaker Pelosi tries to cobble together 218 votes to ram through a government takeover of America’s health care system, we thought you’d find this article, written earlier this summer, of interest.The Roll Call story details a meeting between the Speaker and the 24 member strong Congressional Hispanic Caucus, a formidable voting bloc, whose support the Speaker needs to pass H.R.… Read more

Washington, D.C.- Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today made the following statement on President Obama's joint address to Congress on health care: "As Yogi Berra said, 'I feel like this is déjà vu all over again.' We have a well-delivered speech from the President that sounds good on the surface, but doesn’t match the policy he and the Democrats are putting forward.  "Instead of… Read more

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that the House Democrat health care bill (H.R. 3200) would force seniors to pay an additional 20 percent more for their Medicare prescription drug coverage (Part D).  Under H.R. 3200, seniors would pay 5 percent more in Part D premiums in 2011, increasing to 20 percent by 2019.    Background H.R. 3200 includes three significant changes… Read more

Today, the White House released a report on Medicare noting that “some” seniors would save money if the “doughnut hole” was closed. But "some" isn't "all," and it's not "most."  What the White House isn't telling seniors is that under the House Democrat health care bill, the vast majority of Medicare beneficiaries will pay higher Part B (doctor visits) and Part D (prescription drug… Read more

Responding today to inquiries from Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI), the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that the House Democrat health care bill (H.R. 3200) would force seniors to pay an additional 20 percent more for their Medicare prescription drug insurance (Part D). In their letter to Camp, CBO noted that “The net effect on drug spending would differ among… Read more