United States House Committee on Ways and Means

...for early legislative hearings By Lesley Stedman Weidenbener lstedman@courier-journal.com November 19, 2009 INDIANAPOLIS The House Ways and Means Committee will begin hearings Dec. 7 on legislation in advance of the 2010 session, when...

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...to the national debt. It also could be blocked by powerful New York Democrats like Charlie Rangel, chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, who worry that the tax could hurt the job market in the nation's financial...

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...the ability of powerful purchasers to obtain large savings, benefiting patients." Charles Rangel and Henry Waxman, the chairmen of the House Ways and Means Committee and the House Energy and Commerce Committee respectively, wrote that...

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...history, ask questions, and make the decision that is right for you." Representative Dave Camp, the ranking Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee, said the new guidelines amounted to rationing. "This is what happens when...

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...for certain pharmaceutical products in expectation of new reforms," wrote Charles Rangel and Henry Waxman, the respective chairmen of the House Ways and Means Committee and the House Energy and Commerce Committee. "Any price gouging is...

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...into recent price increases of brand-name prescription drugs, as Congress finalizes health reform overhaul. The leaders of the House Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce Committees, in a letter to the Government Accountability...

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...is filled with examples of federal programs - especially in health care - that cost far more than originally predicted. In 1965, the House Ways and Means Committee estimated that the hospital insurance program of Medicare - the federal...

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