Perhaps the strangest element of Capitol Hill’s months-long health reform debate has been that Democrats — proposing to cover tens of millions of uninsured Americans while banning the worst abuses of the insurance industry — have been branded a public enemy, while Republicans — hell bent on killing the reforms More…
Appearing on Fox News yesterday, Rep. Dave Camp (Mich.), senior Republican on the House Ways & Means Committee, reiterated an oft-mentioned, but also misleading, statistic about the effects of a government-backed insurance plan on the private marketplace.
If the Democrats get their way and include the public option, Camp charged, More…
That previously mentioned luncheon with Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.) went awry when the news broke that former Health and Human Services Secretary-nominee Tom Daschle had withdrawn from consideration. But before that, the congressman was quite revealing while spinning against the Democratic version of the stimulus. Short takes:
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I happened to be at a lunch with Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.), ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee, when news broke that former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) was withdrawing his nomination for health and human services secretary.
“Just the amount he owed was a rich More…
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