COMMITTEE on WAYS and MEANS

Chairman Dave Camp

The Prescription Pad

  • Obama Administration Says Low-Income and Middle Class Can Afford Insurance

    September 20, 2012 - SHOT: Administration Says Individual Mandate Tax Will Only Affect Those Who Can Afford Health Care "This (analysis) doesn't change the basic fact that the individual responsibility policy will only affect people who can afford health care but choose not to buy it," said Erin Shields Britt of the He... More

  • Long Time Democratic Leader Admits ObamaCare Will Force Workers to Lose their Health Coverage

    September 12, 2012 - Last week, former Senator Bob Kerrey said that one of the pillars of ObamaCare “will accelerate an already breaking-down employer-based system.” He was talking about the employer mandate, a requirement that forces employers with 50 or more full-time equivalent employees to offer government-prescrib... More

  • ObamaCare Breaks President Obama’s Two Biggest Promises…Again

    September 11, 2012 - Today’s release of the Kaiser Family Foundation’s annual employer health benefits study confirms that President Obama’s most often mentioned health care promises continue to go unfulfilled. More than two years after passage, health care premiums continue to increase and more than half of all worker... More

  • Democrats’ False Medicare Claims

    September 5, 2012 - Despite its expected bankruptcy in 2024, top Democrats continue to make false claims that the Medicare program seniors and those with disabilities rely on is doing fine and that inaction is the best course. Additional claims that the “savings” and taxes contained in ObamaCare will only strengthen M... More

  • Medicare, Money and Motivation: How AARP Stands to Profit under Democrats’ Health Care Law

    August 17, 2012 - AARP is being held up again today as a credible source committed to protecting seniors – this time in a new round of attacks on bipartisan policies that would extend the solvency of the Medicare program. This is the same AARP that hailed the law as benefitting seniors, despite a recent estimate by ... More

  • Another Independent Analysis of ObamaCare Means More Bad News for America’s Seniors

    July 27, 2012 - On Tuesday, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released the first updated estimate of the Democrats’ health care law since the U.S. Supreme Court ruling, which indicates that ObamaCare’s Medicare cuts will be 50 percent higher than initially predicted. Just two years ago, when ObamaCare was sign... More

  • Democrats’ Health Care Law the Wrong Prescription for Workers and Those Looking for Jobs

    July 17, 2012 - Despite former-Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s claim that the Democrats’ health care law would create “400,000 jobs almost immediately,” a new study revealed that over 70 percent of small businesses cite the health care law as a major obstacle to job creation. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Q2 Small Business ... More

  • How big is the individual mandate tax?

    July 11, 2012 - The Congressional Budget Office predicts that approximately 20 million Americans will either pay the tax or be forced to buy insurance that they otherwise wouldn't purchase. Only two states in the U.S. have more than 20 million people – California and Texas. So despite the Obama Administration’s cl... More

  • It Sure is “Taxing” to Deny a Tax is a Tax

    July 5, 2012 - The Obama Administration seems to have amnesia. Less than a week ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the individual mandate is constitutional and noted that the basis for the ruling was an argument put forth by the Obama Administration: that the individual mandate is a tax. However, at least twic... More

  • By the Numbers: A Look at the Democrats’ Health Care Law

    June 27, 2012 - Health Care Costs and Impact on Americans $1,200: Increase in health care premiums for an average American family in the year following enactment of the Democrats’ health care law. 13 percent: Premium increase, in 2016, for individuals and families who buy coverage on their own – compared to if the... More