Washington, DC – Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today exposed a letter from the Clinton Administration clearly stating that private health care plans offering Medicare benefits have the right to inform their enrollees about pending legislation. Earlier this week, however, CMS inexplicably reversed that long-standing policy by placing a gag order on Medicare Advantage ...
Washington, DC – Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today requested additional information from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding the growing controversy surrounding the agency’s gag order on private Medicare Advantage (MA) plans, which prevents companies from sharing factual information with their enrollees.“I ...
Washington, D.C. – Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp, (R-MI) and Charles Boustany, Jr. (R-LA), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Oversight, today issued the following statements after the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced it would terminate its relationship with ACORN:Congressman Dave Camp stated, “It is clear ACORN was using taxpayer funds to encourage ...
Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) blasted actions by the Obama Administration to silence critics of the President’s proposed Medicare cuts.The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has initiated an investigation into at least one provider of a Medicare Advantage (MA) health care plan for informing its enrollees that Medicare ...
Washington, D.C.- Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI ) today made the following statement regarding Senator Baucus's draft health care bill: “It is clear the arbitrary time limits imposed by the Senate Democrat Leadership hindered Senator Baucus’ ability to produce a bipartisan bill that the American people could support. That is unfortunate. The ...
Washington, DC— Republican Leaders, all Ways & Means Republicans, and other Republican Members today sent U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk letters in response to the Administration’s request for comments on the pending Colombia and South Korea trade agreements. Attached to these letters is an analysis showing the significant economic harm to American exports of continued ...
Washington, D.C.- Committee on Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-TX) today made the following comment on the President’s decision to impose punitive tariffs on Chinese tires: "In bowing to the pressure of the special interest unions, the President has imposed a new tire tax on working Americans – many whom ...
Washington, D.C.- Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today made the following statement on President Obama's joint address to Congress on health care: "As Yogi Berra said, 'I feel like this is déjà vu all over again.' We have a well-delivered speech from the President that sounds good on the surface, but doesn’t match the ...
Today, the White House released a report on Medicare noting that “some” seniors would save money if the “doughnut hole” was closed. But "some" isn't "all," and it's not "most." What the White House isn't telling seniors is that under the House Democrat ...
Responding today to inquiries from Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI), the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that the House Democrat health care bill (H.R. 3200) would force seniors to pay an additional 20 percent more for their Medicare prescription drug insurance (Part D).In their
