Americans want, deserve and demand health care reform. Wednesday, I and my Republican colleagues in the House of Representatives are unveiling common sense health care reforms that focus on increasing the affordability, accessibility and availability of quality health care. Our plan will lower costs, make health care more convenient for patients and improve quality at a price our… Read more

On Monday, in a speech to the American Medical Association, President Obama reaffirmed his prior comments that health care reform shouldn’t displace anyone from their current insurance: “If you like what you're getting, keep it.  Nobody is forcing you to shift.  But if you're not, this gives you some new options.” Yet just a day earlier, on NBC’s Meet the Press, Vice President… Read more

In a letter to Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI), the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) confirmed that the much publicized savings proposals offered to the White House by several leading health care groups fall woefully short of their promised $2 trillion target.   In the letter, CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf wrote that, “only a subset of the initiatives could result in… Read more

Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today highlighted a non-partisan analysisof the government-run plan being debated by the Senate Finance Committee. The study examined two possible versions for a government-run plan. The first was modeled after the Federal Health Employee Benefit Plan (FEHBP) offered to federal employees, including Members of Congress and their staff, and the… Read more

Over the past several decades, our nation has built the finest health-care system in the world. From birth to death we value and care for life. Surgeons can perform life-saving heart surgery on a child that is still in utero. Expert trauma doctors can save the life of a mother who was badly hurt in a car crash. And end-of-life specialists can provide compassionate palliative care to… Read more

"Eroding employer-sponsored insurance with a government-run health insurance plan might be a good idea to Howard Dean, but it certainly can’t be good for employees and their families," said Ways & Means Ranking Member Dave Camp. "What will happen to the 132 million Americans who currently have health insurance through their employer?  Why won't they get to keep their health… Read more

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Kevin Brady, Ranking Member of the House Ways & Means Trade Subcommittee, issued the following statement in response to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative’s (USTR) announcement that the United States will continue the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) negotiations: “I congratulate USTR for moving forward with the ACTA negotiations,… Read more

If you want a good example of the wide gulf between Democrats’ rhetoric on health care and the real world implications of their policy proposals, you need look no further than the issue of prevention and wellness. President Obama and Democrats have made cost control central to their health care push, and a key part of their argument has been that we have to encourage people to live… Read more

The Washington Post recently reported that an “employer mandate,” proposed by many Democrats as a way to pay for health reform, could “raise $300 billion over a 10-year period.” This massive new tax would devastate the economy and put millions of Americans out of work.   Using the same methodology developed by Dr. Christina Romer, Chair of the Council on Economic Advisors, and Jared… Read more

Washington, DC – Responding to proposed electricity rate increases in North Carolina, Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today questioned how many other power companies across the nation were considering increasing rates in anticipation of the requirements of H.R. 2454, the national energy tax created under the Waxman-Markey “cap and trade” bill.   “The bill hasn’t even… Read more