Obamacare Failing Middle Class as Open Enrollment Begins
Obamacare’s fourth open enrollment period is kicking off with devastating financial news for American families and taxpayers. With average premiums rising by 25 percent for benchmark plans on the federal exchange, families will have to decide whether to purchase unaffordable insurance, or pay a fine. For individuals and families that forego this unaffordable health insurance, […]
Hatch, Wyden, Isakson, Warner Release Proposals to Improve Treatment for Chronic Illness
Finance Committee Members Offer Bipartisan Legislative Language to Improve Chronic Care Outcomes in Medicare WASHINGTON –Today, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., along with Senators Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., and Mark Warner, D-Va., co-chairs of the Finance Committee Chronic Care Working Group, released a discussion draft with bipartisan proposals to improve health […]
Hatch, Brady Release White Paper Analyzing Obamacare Income Eligibility Verification
WASHINGTON – Following the Administration’s release of Obamacare’s 2017 benchmark premium increases, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Texas) today released a Majority Staff White Paper detailing a number of issues plaguing the law’s income eligibility verification process. The process, which is used to both determine eligibility and […]
Hatch Statement on Obamacare Premium Increases for 2017
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today issued the following statement regarding Obamacare premium increases for 2017: “While the President’s allies in Washington will try to spin the numbers, families across the country will be forced to figure out how to pay for such unaffordable insurance. That Obamacare has failed to control […]
A Crippling & Costly Law that Now Even Democrats Criticize
Open enrollment is right around the corner, but Americans aren’t in a hurry to sign up for unaffordable Obamacare plans. That’s precisely why, according to analysts, Obamacare enrollment numbers will see a “significant slowdown”. “Enrollment in the Obamacare insurance marketplace is likely to stall or even decline for 2017 as higher premiums drive away people […]
Hatch, Brady, Roskam Call on IRS to Explain $12 Million Mistake to Congress and the American People
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), and House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam (R-IL) today sent a letter to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner John Koskinen after the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) released a report revealing the IRS’s ongoing failure […]
Hatch Statement on CMS’s MACRA Quality Payment Rule
Utah Senator Says Final Rule “…marks another critical milestone in the implementation of this historic law.” SALT LAKE CITY –Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today issued the following statement after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the final rule for implementing the physician payment reforms included in the historic Medicare […]
Hatch Statement on Treasury’s Final Section 385 Debt-Equity Regulations
SALT LAKE CITY – Today, the U.S. Treasury Department issued final regulations regarding debt and equity rules under Internal Revenue Code section 385. In response, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) issued the following statement: “Since the day the regulations were first proposed, the Treasury Department has heard pointed concerns from both Republicans and […]
Hatch Demands Treasury Clarify Use of Secret Memo Regarding Section 385 Debt-Equity Regulations
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today wrote to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew with a series of questions regarding a long-secret Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) concerning the economic and regulatory effects of tax regulations. The Treasury Department uses the memo, recently made public at Chairman Hatch’s […]
Spiraling Out of Control, Hurting the Middle Class
As Obamacare’s Failed Policies Harm American Families, Democrats Push for More Government Intervention From the beginning, the track record for the President Obama’s health law has been anything but stellar. Today, it’s not getting any better, and as The New York Times points out, “You may have noticed that Obamacare’s health insurance markets are in trouble.” (Sept […]