Maine, Hawaii, and Massachusetts have attempted to reform their state health insurance regulations with troubling results.  Democrats in Congress are now seeking to expand these ideas nationwide.  The problem is that these “reforms” resulted in lost jobs, higher health care costs, and reduced access to care at the state-level.  Here are the results: Hawaii: In 1973, Hawaii enacted… Read more

Washington, DC - Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today issued the following statement on this morning’s White House announcement with hospital industry executives: “This is a great deal for hospitals, not American taxpayers.  After all, why should hospitals care whether they get their taxpayer subsidies through Medicare or some other taxpayer-funded, government-run… Read more

Speaking to the American Medical Association last month, President Obama waxed enthusiastic about countries that "spend less" than the U.S. on health care. He's right that many countries do, but what he doesn't want to explain is how they ration care to do it. Take the United Kingdom, which is often praised for spending as little as half as much per capita on health care as the U.S.… Read more

According to the association that represents 350,000 small businesses, the House Democrat health care bill:  Hurts small employers by imposing a government-run plan:  “…we are deeply concerned that a public plan would further compromise the viability of private insurance, which would limit rather than expand choice.” Harms workers by imposing employer… Read more

A new study by an independent research firm predicts the government-run insurance plan proposed by House Democrats will force 2 out of 3 Americans to lose their current health coverage.  The June 2009 Lewin Group analysis of the House Democrats’ health “reform” bill found that: 114 million Americans would be forced out of their current private health coverage, including more than 106… Read more

Yesterday, during a Ways and Means Committee hearing, Ranking Republican Member Dave Camp (R-MI) highlighted a non-partisan, independent analysis  of the House Democrats’ health care legislation.  The study found the Democrats’ bill would result in $3.5 trillion in added federal spending over the next decade and force 64 million Americans to lose their current health care coverage.  It… Read more

Mr. Chairman, I am not sure what to focus on this morning: all that we do know about this bill or all that we don’t know about it.  Both are fairly disturbing.   Let me begin with what we don’t know: how much CBO says it will cost or how you will pay for it.  Hopefully, everyone can see page 162 of the bill on the TV screens.  Now, I know a picture is worth a thousand words, but I… Read more

Today, HSI Network, a non-partisan, independent health care research firm that has worked with research universities, the federal government and the private sector, released the estimated costs and impacts of the House Democrats’ tri-committee health care discussion draft.  The analysis predicts the House Democrats’ bill will result in $3.5 trillion of new federal spending. … Read more

"But when framed with an explicit counterargument, support (for the public option) dropped sharply, to 37 percent." A majority of Americans see government action as critical to controlling runaway health-care costs, but there is broad public anxiety about the potential impact of reform legislation and conflicting views about the types of fixes being proposed on Capitol Hill,… Read more

While House Democrats have not revealed the cost of their health care reform “discussion draft,” CBO has already said the Senate HELP Committee Democrats' draft would cost $1 trillion (before adding the massive Medicaid expansion) and the Senate Finance Committee's draft would cost $1.6 trillion.  The House Democrat bill is, on many fronts, more liberal and likely more costly than either… Read more