American families are struggling with skyrocketing health care costs as our national economy emerges from a recession.As a doctor and member of the House Republican Health Care Solutions Group, I have seen first hand American families and small businesses worried about rising costs and losing their coverage. The Urban Institute reported that President Obama’s health care plan would cost… Read more

“The latest evidence that government can't run a health care system can be found in our Northwest corner. There, the administrator of the Washington State Health Care Authority will decide this week how to throw 36,000 Washingtonians out of the government's health insurance program…Anyone who believes a government-run system open to all won't have rationing is naive, ignorant or… Read more

Washington, DC – Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today issued the following statement after requesting the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) review the initiatives of five major health care trade associations and one labor union to determine the level of savings each of these proposals would yield to the federal government:“Perhaps the most difficult issue in the health… Read more

While the Medicare and Social Security Trustees Report contained much bad news, there was a silver lining: competition has created additional cost savings for both seniors and taxpayers within the Medicare prescription drug program (Part D).  Original estimates from the Medicare actuaries projected that from 2004 to 2013 the Part D benefit would cost $634 billion.  However, yesterday’s… Read more

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement after President Obama met with Democrat committee chairmen and leadership to discuss health care: “Yesterday may have been Yogi Berra’s birthday, but after that press conference I wondered if it wasn’t déjà vu all over again?  Where is the bipartisanship on health care?  Where is the change… Read more

Washington D.C. - Ways & Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) released the following statement today after the release of the annual Trustees Report:  "The Trustees Report confirms what we already know: Medicare and Social Security are fast running out of critical funds and without action they are speeding toward bankruptcy.  So, today, I and many of my colleagues will again sound… Read more

(REMARKS AS PREPARED) Thank you for yielding, Mr. Chairman. I want to take a moment of personal privilege in welcoming Secretary Sebelius to the Ways and Means Committee; I expect it will be a place we meet often.  And, as much as I respect this room and what happens within its walls, I think we would both readily admit that the Leelanau Peninsula, an area I represent and I understand… Read more

(Remarks as Prepared) Thank you for yielding, Mr. Chairman. Before I make any opening statement I want to take a moment to recognize the Chairman’s commitment to the issue before us – health reform in the 21st century – and his receptiveness to work across party lines to find the right way to reform… Read more

"For liberals, labor unions and others pushing to make health care available to all Americans, however, the fixation on a public plan is bizarre and counterproductive." Of the many possible issues that could snarl health-care reform, one of the biggest is whether the measure should include a government-run health plan to compete with private insurers. The public plan has become an… Read more

(Remarks as Prepared) Thank you for yielding, Mr. Chairman. Last night I conducted a telephone town hall with my constituents in Northern Michigan about health care reform and I want to begin by sharing the concerns of one of the many people I spoke to.  This is what she told me: “We are a small… Read more