The Subcommittee on Health is a subcommittee of the Committee on Ways and Means in the United States House of Representatives.

Jurisdiction

From the House rules *''The jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Health includes bills and matters referred to the Committee on Ways and Means that relate to programs providing payments (from any source) for health care, health delivery systems, or health research. More specifically, the jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Health includes bills and matters that relate to the health care programs of the

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(including titles V, XI (Part B), XVIII, and XIX thereof) and, concurrent with the full Committee, tax credit and deduction provisions of the

Internal Revenue Code The Internal Revenue Code (IRC), formally the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, is the domestic portion of federal statutory tax law in the United States, published in various volumes of the United States Statutes at Large, and separately as Title 26 ...

dealing with health insurance premiums and health care costs.''

History

In 2014, the full committee voted to resist a subpoena from the

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to look into insider trader allegations between subcommittee staff director Brian Sutter and Mark Hayes, a lobbyist at Greenberg Traurig.

Members, 117th Congress

Historical membership rosters

115th Congress

116th Congress

References

External links

Ways and Means Committee Website: Subcommittee Page
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