COMMITTEE on WAYS and MEANS

Chairman Dave Camp

The Prescription Pad

  • Democrats: Law is Unworkable Without the Mandate

    June 26, 2012 - Below is a list of statements from key Democrats arguing time and again that, without the unconstitutional individual mandate, the Democrats’ health care law doesn’t work. President Barack Obama "Unless everybody does their part, many of the insurance reforms we seek — especially requiring insuranc... More

  • Despite Rebates and Desperate Claims, Americans Still Paying More for Health Insurance

    June 21, 2012 - Today, the Obama Administration is arguing that ObamaCare is a “win” for consumers because insurers will be rebating $1.1 billion dollars to 12.8 million Americans. This amounts to an average rebate of less than $86 per person who receives the rebate. What the Administration is not saying is that em... More

  • Increase in Dependent Health Coverage Is Actually a Failure to Create Jobs

    June 19, 2012 - The Obama Administration today hailed the Democrats’ health care law for allegedly helping 3.1 million young Americans gain insurance coverage under a provision permitting young adults to stay on their parents’ health insurance plan until they turn age 26. However, what the Administration is unlike... More

  • New Report Confirms Health Care Costs Continue to Rise

    June 18, 2012 - The Kaiser Family Foundation is out with a new report that reinforces the broken promises associated with the Democrats’ health care law. Despite repeated claims by President Obama and Congressional Democrats that health care costs would decrease, this latest report finds that individuals and emplo... More

  • The Left Back Tracks on the Mandate

    June 15, 2012 - Nearly two-thirds of Americans are hoping that the U.S. Supreme Court will overturn some or all of the Democrats’ health care law. The Obama Administration and their allies are already walking away from the arguments they made to the Supreme Court about how the requirement that Americans purchase he... More

  • Obama Administration Officials Again Confirm that Obamacare Will Increase Health Care Spending

    June 12, 2012 - Today’s release of a report by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) detailing national health care expenditures confirms that, despite the Obama Administration’s promises to the contrary, health care costs continue to increase. THEN: “We agree on reforms that will finally reduce the ... More

  • Democrats’ Health Law is Bad News for the Majority of Americans

    June 7, 2012 - Earlier today, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi attempted to defend the Democrats’ unpopular health law saying that it would allow people to leave their jobs to “pursue happiness” without the threat of losing their ability to obtain health insurance. Unfortunately, the more than 160 million Amer... More

  • President Obama Continues His “Say One Thing, Do Another” Tour

    May 29, 2012 - What a difference just a few days makes. In April, President Obama traveled to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) to wax poetic about “college affordability.” Not surprisingly, left out of the conversation was any mention that students’ health insurance premiums were about to s... More

  • ObamaCare's Impact on the Economy: Layoffs, U.S. Jobs Shipped Overseas, Plans to Create New U.S. Jobs Canceled

    May 10, 2012 - In today’s Washington Post, George Will highlights the ways in which the Democrats’ health care law is already contributing to job loss and inhibiting economic growth here at home - leaving job creators and employees alike worried about whether the trend will continue as more and more provisions of ... More

  • Analysis: 65 Million People Could Lose Employer-Sponsored Coverage

    May 8, 2012 - This week, the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions highlighted an analysis conducted by the group last fall which found that up to 65 million Americans could lose their employer-sponsored health insurance because of ObamaCare's employer mandate requirement. The analysis noted that while employers o... More