Wyden and Grassley Seek Next Steps on Health Care Transparency
WASHINGTON – Building on their work to make Medicare cost and quality data more transparent, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and senior Finance Committee member Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, are asking providers, patients, advocates, insurers, entrepreneurs and others for new ideas for improving overall transparency in health care. “Health care-related data, specifically, is a […]
Wyden Remarks at Joint AARP-BRT Event on Data Transparency in Health Care
I have had a real interest in health care data transparency for years. The way I see it, data has the capacity to completely change the health care landscape in this country. Data can personalize care in ways that have never been done before. We already know that the same treatment can have very different […]
Senator Hatch’s Amendments to S. 2450
Amendment 1. Med Device. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt medical devices sold under Tricare or VA from the tax. Amendment 2. HSAs for VA benes. Amends the IRC to allow individuals who have received veterans benefits to contribute to and receive benefits from a Health Savings Account.
Hatch Calls For Ending Taxpayer-Funded Unions at VA and IRS
WASHINGTON – In a speech on the Senate floor today, Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) highlighted taxpayer-funded unions at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). “I, for one, don’t believe that taxpayers ought to be footing the bill for union work. I think that the majority of […]
JCT Estimates Repatriation Tax Holiday Would Cost $95 Billion
WASHINGTON – Today, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) highlighted a letter from the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) regarding the budgetary impacts of a repatriation tax holiday. In the letter, JCT estimates a temporary tax holiday would have a negative impact of $95 billion over 10 years. “A tax holiday meant to […]
Wyden, Hatch Outline Path Forward on Comprehensive Tax Reform
WASHINGTON –Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, today reinforced their commitment to overhauling the nation’s broken tax code through comprehensive reform. As a part of this effort, Wyden and Hatch announced the first in a series of committee hearings this summer to examine several issue areas that are […]
Hatch Highlights CBO Report on Obamacare Penalties
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today issued the following statement regarding a new report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) entitled “Payments of Penalties for Being Uninsured Under the Affordable Care Act: 2014 Update,” that outlines payment penalties under Obamacare: “Today’s CBO report continues to show […]
Wyden Applauds Burwell Bipartisan Confirmation Vote
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden made the following statement after the Senate today confirmed Sylvia Mathews Burwell as Secretary of Health and Human Services: “No single person or party can possibly tackle all the big issues facing this country – it’s going to require people to work together to find the best […]
Hatch Calls for More Obamacare Oversight During Burwell Debate
WASHINGTON – In a speech on the Senate floor today, Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) emphasizing the need for rigorous oversight and legislation regarding failed state Obamacare exchanges while highlighting the President’s nominee to head HHS, Sylvia Mathews Burwell, in her commitment to using “the full extent of the law to get those […]
Hatch Statement on Obamacare Enrollment Discrepancies
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today issued the following statement regarding reports from the AP that more than 1 in 4, or at least 2 million, Obamacare enrollees have data discrepancies: “A 25 percent error rate is simply unacceptable when it comes to proper use of […]