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

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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

Mr. Chairman, thank you for yielding time.  I want to thank you for holding this hearing.  When the Ways and Means Committee and the tax code are used for purposes beyond raising the revenues necessary to fund the federal government – for instance, to pursue social and economic policy goals – the members of this Subcommittee have a responsibility to conduct oversight of those tax… 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

The table below compares the White House's February 2009 projection of the number of jobs that would be created by the 2009 stimulus law (through the end of 2010) with the actual change in state payroll employment through September 2009 (the latest figures available).  According to the data, 49 States and the District of Columbia have lost jobs since stimulus was enacted.  Only North… Read more