News List

  • A Breast Cancer Preview
    Nov 19, 2009  - A government panel's decision to toss out long-time guidelines for breast cancer screening is causing an uproar, and well it should. This episode is an all-too-instructive preview of the coming political decisions about cost-control and medical treatment that are at the heart of ObamaCare. As recen... More
  • Ways and Means Republicans Write to AMA; Say Democrats' Physician Payment Fix Bill is Not True Reform
    Nov 19, 2009  - Washington, DC – In a letter authored by Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) and Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Wally Herger (R-CA) to the President of the American Medical Association (AMA), Ways and Means Republicans expressed support for dealing with looming cuts to physician payme... More
  • Obamacare: Buy now, pay later
    Nov 16, 2009  - There is an air of absurdity to what is mistakenly called "health-care reform." Everyone knows that the United States faces massive governmental budget deficits as far as calculators can project, driven heavily by an aging population and uncontrolled health costs. As we recover slowly from a devasta... More
  • Report: Bill would reduce senior care
    Nov 15, 2009  - A plan to slash more than $500 billion from future Medicare spending -- one of the biggest sources of funding for President Obama's proposed overhaul of the nation's health-care system -- would sharply reduce benefits for some senior citizens and could jeopardize access to care for millions of other... More
  • Obama Administration Report Confirms Pelosi's Health Care Bill Still Fails to Control Costs
    Nov 14, 2009  - Washington, DC – Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today released an analysis he requested from the nonpartisan, independent experts at the Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).  The report shows national health care costs will incr... More
  • The Lords of Entitlement
    Nov 9, 2009  - Pelosi's Health Care Bill:"It creates a vast new entitlement, financed by European levels of taxation on business and individuals" Speaker Nancy Pelosi defied policy logic and public opinion late Saturday night, ramming through the House a nearly 2,000-page health-care leviathan that counts as th... More
  • Camp on MSNBC Discusses the Vote on Democrats' Government Takeover of Health Care
    Nov 7, 2009  - CAMP: "This is not a moderate bill. It's a bill that really does have a government takeover of our health care system, raises taxes significantly, does nothing to control costs in health care...and ultimately will cost us jobs."  ### More
  • H.R. 3962 "Affordable Health Care for America Act"
    Nov 7, 2009  - Mr. Speaker, Republicans have listened to the American people; it is clear from the Speaker’s health care bill, the Democratic majority has not. The Speaker crafted this bill behind closed doors and added one-thousand pages that have never been before a committee or had any input from the Ameri... More
  • Floor Remarks: H.R. 4038 The Republican Alternative " Common Sense Health Care Reform and Affordability Act"
    Nov 7, 2009  - Madame Speaker, The American people deserve and demand a common sense approach to health care reform that: 1) Makes health care reform affordable, 2) Guarantees all Americans, regardless of a pre-existing condition, have access to affordable health care and 3) Does so without raising taxes, wi... More
  • CAMP: Speaker Chose Not to Listen to American People
    Nov 7, 2009  - Washington, DC –  Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today voted against Speaker Pelosi’s one-trillion dollar government takeover of health care.  After the House vote, Camp issued the following statement: “Speaker Pelosi chose not to listen to the American people and instead forced thr... More