Congressman Steve Womack (AR-3) today released the following statement regarding the Supreme Court’s King v. Burwell ruling:
“Today’s ruling does not change the reality that Obamacare is fundamentally flawed, increasing costs for families and businesses alike, killing jobs, making full-time employment harder to find, and limiting choice in and access to health care. Congress… Read more »
Congressman Steve Womack (AR-3) today released the following statement after passage of H.R. 2, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, which repeals the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR), replaces it with a formula that returns stability to Medicare physician payments, strengthens Medicare’s ability to fight fraud, provides funding for community health centers and… Read more »
Congressman Steve Womack (AR-3) – a cosponsor of H.R. 596 – today released the following statement in response to House passage of the bill, which repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and the health care-related provisions in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 in their entirety and calls on the relevant House committees to submit legislation… Read more »
In Fiscal Year (FY) 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which is largely in charge of administering the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), will use over $702 million of user fees to spend a total of $773 million on consumer outreach and education for the Obamacare marketplaces. Unfortunately, while the administration conducts this massive… Read more »
U.S. Representatives Renee Ellmers (R-NC-2), Steve Womack (R-AR-3), Doris Matsui (D-CA-6), and Bill Owens (D-NY-21), along with 44 of their House colleagues, today sent U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Burwell a bipartisan letter requesting that the she instruct the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to use its existing authority… Read more »
Congressman Steve Womack (AR-3) today released the following statement after the passage of H.R. 3522, the Employee Health Care Protection Act of 2014, which allows health insurers to continue offering plans that were available in the group market in 2013 until 2019 without subjecting employers and their employees to penalties under Obamacare’s… Read more »
Obamacare has increased costs for families and businesses alike, killed jobs, made full-time employment harder to find, and limited choice in and access to health care; it’s no wonder that it’s more unpopular than ever.
Even President Obama knows Obamacare isn’t working – he has signed into law nine bills which repeal or defund parts of it and has made unilateral changes or delays… Read more »
Congressman Steve Womack (AR-3) was today appointed by House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers (KY-5) to serve as vice chairman of the House Appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittee. He will serve as chair of the subcommittee in the absence of subcommittee Chairman Jack Kingston (GA-1) and assist him in official committee… Read more »
On July 5, 2013, the Obama administration reported that systems to safeguard and verify eligibility for federal premium subsidies for health insurance purchased through an exchange are not in place and announced it would rely on self-attestation and sample audits for the purpose of distributing premium tax credits. It is estimated that this could result in $250 billion of improper… Read more »
I support defunding Obamacare.
I am proud to cosponsor Representative Tom Graves’ H.R. 2682, the Defund Obamacare Act, which prohibits any funds from being spent on any activity to implement or enforce the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), rescinds any unspent balances that have already been appropriated for implementation, and turns off all mandatory spending… Read more »
