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Thursday, December 02, 2010
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  • ICYMI: Camp Editorial on Repealing & Replacing Health Care Law, in Monday’s USA Today
    Nov 8, 2010  - Repeal and Replace ObamaCare By Dave Camp Health care costs too much in this country. Spending $1 trillion more on health care, as the Democrats' new law does, didn't reduce health care costs. In fact, it will only make matters worse. According to the non-partisan Con... More
  • Camp, Herger Question Political Nature of HHS Advertisement Campaigns to Seniors
    Oct 18, 2010  - Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) and Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Wally Herger (R-CA) today questioned if politics is driving a new round of Medicare television advertisements featuring Andy Griffith by the Obama Administration and sought details of the ad campaign from Health a... More
  • Camp, Herger Question Administration’s Decision to Force Seniors Out of Their Medicare Prescription Drug Plans
    Sep 28, 2010  - Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) and Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Wally Herger (R-CA) today sent Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius a letter inquiring about the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) decision to eliminate certain Medicare Part D pres... More
  • House GOP Leaders Include Camp Policies in New “Pledge to America”
    Sep 23, 2010  - House Republicans’ new “Pledge to America,” a document outlining their governing priorities, officially released today, contains several policy initiatives authored by Michigan Congressman Dave Camp (R-Midland). Camp, the top Republican on the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, authored the s... More
  • Democrats' Health Care Law to Sharply Increase Premiums - By As Much as 20 Percent Next Year
    Sep 8, 2010  - Today's Wall Street Journal reports that health insurance companies plan to increase health insurance premiums by up to 20 percent next year in part to comply with new federal mandates resulting from the Democrats' health overhaul. Two of the largest insurance companies, BlueCross BlueShield and Ae... More
  • ANALYSIS: 1 in 5 Seniors Could be Forced Out of Their Medicare Prescription Drug Plan
    Aug 25, 2010  - As if more than one-half trillion dollars in Medicare cuts that could jeopardize access to care wasn't enough bad news for seniors, analysis released yesterday by Avalere Health, a health care research firm, estimates that 1 in 5 seniors could lose their Medicare Part D plan because of actions taken... More
  • Tax Hikes in Democrats’ State Bailout Bill Would Eliminate Another 141,000 Private Sector Jobs
    Aug 10, 2010  - Democrats suggest the State and local government bailout bill to be considered in the House today will temporarily “save” certain government jobs. But what they won’t tell you is that the $9.6 billion in permanent tax hikes they would impose to “pay for” that extension of stimulus would destroy over... More
  • The Prescription Pad – Medicare Trustees Confirm: 9 in 10 Seniors Expected to Lose Their Retiree Prescription Drug Coverage Because of Democrats’ Health Law
    Aug 6, 2010  - The 2010 Medicare Trustees report confirms what employers have been saying for months – that the Democrats’ health care law will result in a substantial and marked decline in employer-sponsored retiree drug coverage. In 2009, 20 percent of seniors participating in Part D did so through a retire... More
  • Camp Statement on Social Security and Medicare Trustees Reports
    Aug 5, 2010  - Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp today made the following statement on the release of the 2010 Social Security and Medicare Trustees Reports: “The reports of the Social Security and Medicare Trustees released today again sound the alarm that spending on Social Security and Medicare is on an... More
  • Camp: 1099 Issue Shows Health Care Law Can Be Repealed
    Jul 30, 2010  - While rank-and-file Democrats lined up behind a Republican effort to repeal the onerous, job-killing 1099 tax provision found in the new health care law, Democrat leaders doomed H.R. 5982 to failure by including billions of dollars in new job-killing tax increases on American employers. Ways and Me... More