The Affordable Care Act (more commonly known as Obamacare) was based in part on the premise that the more young and healthy Americans purchase insurance through the Obamacare exchanges, the more affordable health insurance would become for everyone. That's because individuals ages 18 to 34 typically have fewer health care needs, are less expensive to insure, and ...
This Summer's health care headlines have not reflected what Americans were promised in 2010.
Premiums are rising, insurers are leaving the market, and
Tomorrow, the Committee will vote to advance two bipartisan bills that will help improve the quality of health care for some of the nation's most vulnerable patients.
The Committee will first consider legislation to increase choices and expand access to quality care for patients with ...
Today the Ways and Means Committee unanimously passed two bills to protect Americans from Washington overreach.
The Continuing Access to Hospitals Act of 2016 (H.R. 5613), authored by Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-KS), will protect access to high-quality health care in rural communities by providing needed regulatory relief to Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs). As Rep. Jenkins ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, in a bipartisan vote, the House voted to pass H.R. 1270, the Restoring Access to Medication and Improving Health Savings Act of 2016. This legislation – which was authored by Ways and Means Committee Member Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-KS) and includes provisions authored by Ways and Means Committee Member Rep. Erik Paulsen (R-MN) – will ...
What: Full Committee on Ways and Means Markup
Where: 1100 Longworth House Office Building
When: Thursday, July 7, at 2:00 PM ET
Live stream available HERE.
The Committee will consider the following:
Last week, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) joined Speaker Paul Ryan and other House Republicans to unveil “A Better Way to Fix Health Care." The plan offers the American people ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) today joined Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA), and leaders of the Health Care Reform Task Force at the
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Board of Trustees for the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds released their annual reports on the financial health of these important programs—
Our GOP plan to replace Obamacare
Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX)
USA Today
June 22, 2016
Decisions about our health care are some of the most personal choices we make throughout our lives. And these decisions — what type of ...