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Committee On Ways & Means Republicans Ranking Member, Dave Camp

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The jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Health shall include bills and matters referred to the Committee on Ways and Means that relate to programs providing payments (from any source) for health care, health delivery systems, or health research. More specifically, the jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Health shall include bills and matters that relate to the health care programs of the Social Security Act (including titles V, XI (Part B), XVIII, and XIX thereof) and, concurrent with the full Committee, tax credit and deduction provisions of the Internal Revenue Code dealing with health insurance premiums and health care costs.
Source: "Manual of Rules of the Committee on Ways and Means for the One Hundred Ninth Congress," WMCP: 109-1.

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Obama Floats Another Middle Class Tax Hike Trial Balloon
Aug 25, 2009 - Facing ever larger deficits as the result of massive federal spending and the failure of the President’s stimulus plan to meet its stated goals, the White House again admitted today that the President may increase taxes on middle class families starting next year. While President Obama had previo... More

Media Excerpts of Health Care Announcement: Vague, Unenforceable & Unusable by Congress
May 11, 2009 - New York Times: …If history is a guide, their commitments may not produce the promised savings. Their proposals are vague — promising, for example, to reduce both “overuse and underuse of health care.” None of the proposals are enforceable, and none of the savings are guaranteed. Without such a gua... More

Democrat Leader Boasts: Government-Run Health Plan Will Eliminate Private Insurance, Create Single-Payer System
May 1, 2009 - Democrat Chief Deputy Whip and Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Health Member Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) recently admitted that the push for a government-run health insurance plan is nothing short of an attempt to destroy the health insurance 174 million Americans currently have and create a single-... More

Analysis: 7 out of 10 Lose Their Employer Health Insurance Due to Government "Option"
Apr 29, 2009 - As part of their health reform agenda, many Democrats are attempting to impose a government-run health insurance plan on millions of Americans. They say this “option” will create “choice,” but a recent study proves it will force millions of Americans to lose their current health insurance, especial... More

What does $1.1 Trillion in Deficit Spending Get You? $1.1 Trillion for 1.4% Today, -0.2% Tomorrow
Feb 12, 2009 - What does $1.1 Trillion in Deficit Spending Get You? $1.1 Trillion for 1.4% Today, -0.2% Tomorrow FACT: The non-partisan CBO confirms that the added debt burdens and crowding out of private sector activity within the $1.1 Trillion “stimulus” package quickly becomes a drag on the economy an... More

DEMOCRAT POLICY REVEALED:You Can Be Too Rich for a Tax Cut, But Never Too Rich for Taxpayer-F
Feb 4, 2009 - House Democrat Health and Tax Policy Compared: Stimulus tax policy ... More

The Democrats' Definition of Bipartisanship?
Jan 23, 2009 - Outside of the White House today, Speak Pelosi claimed that Republican voices have been heard in the discussion of the House Democrat's trillion-dollar spending bill. Majority Leader Hoyer went as far as to say, “This week, the Appropriations, Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce Committees ... More

Democrats Blowing Smoke on Funding, Using Smoke and Mirrors for Number of Covered Kids
Jan 14, 2009 - On Tuesday night, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer issued a press release on SCHIP that was riddled with factual errors. • He claimed that 4 million children who are currently eligible for SCHIP, but are not yet enrolled, would join the program. However, according the Congressional Bu... More

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Official: Mass-type care could 'wipe out' economy
Mar 18, 2010 - The Massachusetts treasurer said Tuesday that Congress will "threaten to wipe out the American economy within four years" if it adopts a health care overhaul modeled after the Bay State's Treasurer Timothy Cahill -- a former Democrat running as an independent for governor -- said the 2006 law has su... More

Obama v. Obama on Ramming Democrats’ Unpopular Health Care Bill Through Congress
Mar 3, 2010 - THEN NOW ... More

Back to the ObamaCare Future
Mar 1, 2010 - Natural experiments are rare in politics, but few are as instructive as the prototype for ObamaCare that Massachusetts set in motion in 2006. The bills for "universal coverage" are now coming due, and it appears the state political class is prepared to do lasting damage to one of America's top-fligh... More

That rock in the health-care road? It's called the Constitution.
Jan 14, 2010 - Although Democrats think their health-care legislation faces smooth sailing to implementation, there is a rock dead ahead -- a constitutional challenge to the legislation's core. Democrats who assume it is constitutional to make it mandatory for Americans to purchase health insurance should answer s... More

Medicare and the Mayo Clinic
Jan 6, 2010 - PRESIDENT OBAMA is a great admirer of the Mayo Clinic. Time and again he has extolled it as an outstanding model of health care excellence and efficiency. “Look at what the Mayo Clinic is able to do,’’ the president proclaimed at a rally in September. “It’s got the best quality and the lowest cost ... More

Married Couples Pay More Than Unmarried Under Health Bill
Jan 6, 2010 - WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Some married couples would pay thousands of dollars more for the same health insurance coverage as unmarried people living together, under the health insurance overhaul plan pending in Congress. The built-in "marriage penalty" in both House and Senate healthcare bills has r... More

Democrats Challenged to Open Health Care Debate
Jan 5, 2010 - C-SPAN Challenges Congress to Open Health Care Talks to TV Coverage The head of C-SPAN has implored Congress to open up the last leg of health care reform negotiations to the public, as top Democrats lay plans to hash out the final product among themselves. C-SPAN CEO Brian Lamb... More

Passing Health Reform Could be a Nightmare for Obama
Dec 21, 2009 - Barack Obama's quest for historic health-care legislation has turned into a parody of leadership. We usually associate presidential leadership with the pursuit of goals that, though initially unpopular, serve America's long-term interests. Obama has reversed this. He's championing increasingly unpop... More

Senator Sanders (I-VT): Senate Democrats' Health Bill Increases Premiums
Dec 14, 2009 - With the White House on the attack today against the Congressional Budget Office and Medicare official's findings that Democratic reforms don't control health care costs, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, is not helping their cause. He said today: “Can I ... More

Coalition of State and National Specialty Medical Societies Oppose Senate Health Reform Bill
Dec 8, 2009 - Today, 17 state and national medical societies, representing 92,000 physicians, including 3 past presidents of the American Medical Association, sent a letter to Senator Reid opposing the Senate Democrats’ plan for government-takeover of health care. This news follows on the heels of hundreds of th... More

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

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

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

Health Care Subsidies for Illegal Immigrants Still a Problem for Democrats
Nov 6, 2009 - ROLL CALL: Rep. Velazquez and the CHC will vote against the bill if “language restricting the rights of illegal immigrants to buy insurance is ADDED to the bill.” (Emphasis added, but not restrictions on illegal immigrants getting taxpayer subsidies.) THE HILL: “Congressional Hispanics have thre... More

Fox News: GOP Health Care Bill Delivers Lower Premiums Than Democrats' Plan
Nov 5, 2009 - (Click to Play) Americans repeatedly say their top health care reform priority is lowering the cost of health coverage. In an analysis conducted by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), health insurance premiums for many families would be nearly $5,000 more expensive under Democrats’ bill com... More

Snowe: House Bill Not Within American Mainstream
Nov 5, 2009 - It's safe to say Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), the only Republican who appears to be entertaining support for the Democratic health reform bills, is no fan of the House legislation. "I do not know what world they live in," Snowe said in an interview. "But all I know is it is totally detached from ... More

Health bills too timid on cutting costs, experts say
Nov 4, 2009 - Democrats in Congress are embracing the spirit of President Obama's call to slow the runaway rise of health-care costs but are shying away from some of the most aggressive techniques for achieving that. Instead of revolutionizing how care is delivered and paid for, experts say, the legislation bein... More

Bending the Curve - The Wrong Way
Oct 23, 2009 - Obama Administration officials have repeatedly emphasized the need to "bend the curve" of health-care costs. Reducing increases in health spending, they argued, was essential to controlling future federal budget deficits and making insurance affordable for most Americans. Now, in the first comprehen... More

Obama Administration's Analysis Shows House Democrats' Bill Will Increase Health Care Spending
Oct 22, 2009 - The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) yesterday wrote that , “Total national health expenditures under [H.R. 3200] would increase by an estimated 2.7 percent in calendar year 2019.” Over the next 10 years, CMS predicts overall national health expenditures will jump by 2.1 perce... More

Republicans Score Victory for Nation’s Seniors
Oct 20, 2009 - After nearly a month of requests from Ways and Means Republicans to remove the misguided gag order placed on Medicare plans from communicating with their members, the Obama Administration finally lifted the ban Friday evening. As a result, Medicare plans will once again be able to communicate factua... More

AARP: Healthcare Reform Has Become Most Divisive Issue in Group's History
Oct 14, 2009 - Healthcare reform is dividing the membership of the AARP more than any other issue ever has. Despite expending vast resources, the AARP has not been able to unite its own membership, Nancy LeaMond, the executive vice president of the organization’s social impact group, told reporters on Wednesday. ... More

'Conceptual Language' Hides Health Care's Costs
Oct 13, 2009 - Some of the headlines in recent days are not worthy of belief. No, I'm not referring to the headlines that Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, however odd that many seem to many (including, it seems, Obama himself). I'm referring to the headlines earlier in the week to the effect that the health... More

The Lesson of State Health-Care Reforms
Oct 7, 2009 - As Ways and Means Republicans have noted, the health plans Congressional Democrats are proposing have already failed at the state level. The results of these misguided policies have been significantly higher premiums, higher health care costs and reduced access to care. Below is a Wall Street Journa... More

What We Would Have Told Obama
Oct 5, 2009 - "If the goal of reform is to provide the best possible patient care, let's take the government-controlled 'public option' — and any legislative trick that could lead to a public option—off the table. It will result in long waiting lines to see a doctor, substandard care, and an end to medical discov... More

Obama's Medicare Disadvantage
Sep 29, 2009 - Medicare Advantage is a recently instituted federal program that allows individuals eligible for Medicare to opt to take their coverage from a private carrier, such as a Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) of Preferred Provider Organization (PPO). These MA deals usually offer somewhat better cover... More

Budget Chief Contradicts Obama on Medicare Costs
Sep 23, 2009 - WASHINGTON — Congress' chief budget officer is contradicting President Barack Obama's oft-stated claim that seniors wouldn't see their Medicare benefits cut under a health care overhaul. The head of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, Douglas Elmendorf, told senators Tuesday that seniors... More

FACT CHECK: Coverage Requirement Enforced With Tax
Sep 21, 2009 - WASHINGTON – Memo to President Barack Obama: It's a tax. Obama insisted this weekend on national television that requiring people to carry health insurance — and fining them if they don't — isn't the same thing as a tax increase. But the language of Democratic bills to revamp the nation's health car... More

CHC Presses Pelosi to Include Illegal Immigrants in Health Bill
Sep 11, 2009 - As Speaker Pelosi tries to cobble together 218 votes to ram through a government takeover of America’s health care system, we thought you’d find this article, written earlier this summer, of interest.The Roll Call story details a meeting between the Speaker and the 24 member strong Congressional ... More

Mayo Clinic Says That American People Will Lose Under House Democrats' Government-Run Plan
Jul 21, 2009 - Mayo Clinic’s reaction to House Tri-Committee bill: "Although there are some positive provisions in the current House Tri-Committee bill – including insurance for all and payment reform demonstration projects – the proposed legislation misses the opportunity to help create higher-quality, more affo... More

Physician Unrest Flares Over AMA Stand
Jul 16, 2009 - Concerned that the American Medical Association has taken too tepid a position on Democratic healthcare reform plans, a coalition of state medical associations and specialty organizations is breaking from the country's largest physicians' group to mount its own push against the inclusion of a pub... More

Democrats' Plans are a Prescription for Pain
Jul 15, 2009 - By Charles W. Boustany Jr. (R-LA) Editor's note: Rep. Charles Boustany is a Republican who represents southwest Louisiana. Before being elected to Congress, Boustany practiced medicine as a cardiothoracic surgeon for 14 years.Rep. Charles Boustany says Democrats' health care plans don't focus on ... More

Camp and Boehner: Reform Health Care Without Government Takeover
Jul 14, 2009 - When President Barack Obama arrives in Michigan today, he'll continue our national dialogue on giving Americans better access to affordable health care. The question is how we get there. House Republicans have a plan that will reduce costs, expand access and increase the quality of care in a way we... More

WSJ: Of Nice and Men
Jul 8, 2009 - Speaking to the American Medical Association last month, President Obama waxed enthusiastic about countries that "spend less" than the U.S. on health care. He's right that many countries do, but what he doesn't want to explain is how they ration care to do it. Take the United Kingdom, which is of... More

Most Want Health Reform But Fear Its Side Effects
Jun 24, 2009 - "But when framed with an explicit counterargument, support (for the public option) dropped sharply, to 37 percent." A majority of Americans see government action as critical to controlling runaway health-care costs, but there is broad public anxiety about the potential impact of reform legislat... More

Roskam: 5 Principles for Healthcare Reform
Jun 18, 2009 - The healthcare system is undoubtedly in peril. I hear daily concern from my constituents about the rising costs of healthcare coverage, the ability to keep good coverage and the fear of hurting our country’s rich tradition of medical innovation. Simply put, Congress owes it to the American peo... More

Reform Measures Should Not Weaken Our Health Care
Jun 15, 2009 - Over the past several decades, our nation has built the finest health-care system in the world. From birth to death we value and care for life. Surgeons can perform life-saving heart surgery on a child that is still in utero. Expert trauma doctors can save the life of a mother who was badly hurt i... More

Dems Health Care Proposal Would Kill Successful Prevention Program They Tout
Jun 12, 2009 - If you want a good example of the wide gulf between Democrats’ rhetoric on health care and the real world implications of their policy proposals, you need look no further than the issue of prevention and wellness. President Obama and Democrats have made cost control central to their health care ... More

Health Care Lottery
Jun 2, 2009 - “The latest evidence that government can't run a health care system can be found in our Northwest corner. There, the administrator of the Washington State Health Care Authority will decide this week how to throw 36,000 Washingtonians out of the government's health insurance program…Anyone who be... More

there are many more links and articles - if only the American people could have had this accumulation of information especially those who believe this 'Reform' is the best thing since sliced bread..