Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) blasted actions by the Obama Administration to silence critics of the President's proposed Medicare cuts.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has initiated an investigation into at least one provider of a Medicare Advantage (MA) health care plan for informing its enrollees that Medicare cuts proposed by the President and congressional Democrats could alter their benefits. In addition to this investigation, CMS has since banned all MA health plans from providing similar information to beneficiaries.

It looks likes CMS is engaged in government intimidation, pure and simple," said Camp. "Seniors know the Presidents' Medicare cuts will impact their benefits. CBO has confirmed these cuts could negatively impact Medicare benefits and increase seniors' costs. But when health care plans try to share that information with their enrollees, the Administration slaps a gag order on them. It is a total abuse of power."
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