Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement after the House, in a bipartisan vote, passed H.R. 5, the “Protecting Access to Health Care Act,” which repeals the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB): “On the eve of the second anniversary of the Democrats’ health law, the House again [...]

President Obama famously promised during the debate over his $2.6 trillion health spending law that, “If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health plan,” and that it would “slow the growth of health care costs for our families, our businesses, and our government.”  However, a major survey recently conducted by the [...]

As States Struggle With Health Costs ‘Devouring’ Their Budgets, They’re Faced With A ‘Twist… Discovered Only After The Complex Bill Was Signed’ Dem Health Bill Would Allow ‘Several Million Middle-Class People Get Nearly Free [Medicaid] Insurance Meant For The Poor’ “President Barack Obama’s health care law would let several million middle-class people get nearly free [...]

AARP is a profitable organization that is actively attempting to rip off Americans while claiming they are only helping seniors. Congress is finally looking into their practices. Health Subcommittee Chairman Wally Herger (R-CA) When Dr. Ethel Percy Andrus founded AARP in 1958, Medicare did not exist.  Dr. Andrus understood that seniors needed access to health [...]

Organization Stands to Make One Billion Dollars in Insurance Royalties Over the Next Ten Years Washington, DC – Ways and Means Committee Members Wally Herger (R-CA), Dave Reichert (R-WA) and Charles Boustany (R-LA) today released “Behind the Veil: The AARP America Doesn’t Know,”  a new report exposing the conflict between AARP’s drive for profits, the best interests [...]

PRESIDENT OBAMA: ‘This Law Will Lower Premiums’ (President Obama, Remarks To ‘Families USA,’ 1/28/11) VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN: ‘[People’s] Premiums Haven’t Gone Up’ (“$#!% Joe Biden Says,” GQ, 12/10) PREMIUM INCREASES OF ‘60% OR MORE’ REPORTED NEW HAMPSHIRE: “This Year, Groups Of More Than 20 Workers Have Been Experiencing Premium Increases Of Around 20 Percent, Insurance [...]

In another admission that the Democrats’ health care law is unworkable, the Obama Administration announced today rules that states must follow to ask for the Administration’s permission beginning in 2017, in order to “opt out” of the bulk of the health care law.  The announcement comes on the heels of news earlier this week that the [...]

HHS Ignores Key CBO Data, Selectively Quotes Report Washington, DC – Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) today made the following statement in response to a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) report on the impact of the Democrats’ health care law on premiums: “This report would be laughable if it wasn’t so [...]

“The creation of new jobs may be further hindered by businesses’ continued lack of confidence in the recovery’s sustainability and by remaining limitations on access to credit. Businesses may also be unsure and concerned about how they will be affected by the implementation of recently enacted financial and health care legislation and by possible future [...]

As the Ways and Means Committee holds its first health care hearing of the 112th Congress – focusing on the impact of the Democrats’ health care law on employers and workers – here is a look at what many employers and economists are saying about the law: Small Business Coalition for Affordable Health Care “The [...]