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Brady and Upton to CMS: Stop Unlawful Payments to Insurers

March 23, 2016 — Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) sent a letter to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt regarding CMS’s plan to illegally divert as much as $3.5 billion from the Treasury to pay health insurers through the Transitional ...

Obamacare at Six: Six Ways the Administration Violated Its Own Health Care Law

March 21, 2016 — Blog

This week marks the 6th Anniversary of Obamacare. In trying to make the President’s failing health care law work over the last six years, the Obama Administration has done more than break its promises to the American people. It has unilaterally rewritten its own law to satisfy special interests – providing further proof that Washington’s one-size-fits-all health care system is ...

Brady Votes to Repeal Obamacare

February 02, 2016 — Floor Statements

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Tonight, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) voted to override President Obama’s veto of the Restoring Americans’ Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act of 2015 (H.R. 3762) and ultimately repeal Obamacare. Earlier today, Chairman Brady spoke on the floor of the House of Representatives about ...

Brady: Congress Must Take Action to Save Medicare

January 26, 2016 — Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement in reaction to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) report on federal spending and the 2026 exhaustion date of Medicare’s Hospital Insurance Trust Fund. “Our entitlement programs are unsustainable. In 2015, for the first time, federal health care ...

#LASTSOTU // Go Growth or Go Home

January 11, 2016 — Blog

On January 12th, President Obama will come before Congress and the American people for his final State of the Union address. CNN reports that the President will “deliver a ‘non-traditional’ speech to the American people ...

Brady Takes Action to Repeal Obamacare

January 06, 2016 — Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) voted to repeal Obamacare and delivered the following statement on the floor of the House in support of the Restoring Americans' Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act of 2015 (H.R. 3762): "Mr. Speaker, I’m pleased to speak today about the Restoring Americans’ Healthcare Freedom ...

Brady and Upton Seek to Break Administration Stonewall on Unlawful Payments to Insurance Companies

December 11, 2015 — Press Releases

WASHINGTON, DC – In an effort to break the Obama administration’s stonewall on providing information about its unlawful payments to insurance companies, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) recently wrote to Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary ...