{"id":25554,"date":"2020-04-07T10:16:12","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T14:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=25554"},"modified":"2020-04-07T11:04:22","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T15:04:22","slug":"image-of-the-day-peril-of-a-buy-american-medical-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/25554\/image-of-the-day-peril-of-a-buy-american-medical-mandate\/","title":{"rendered":"Image of the Day:  Peril of a &#8220;Buy American&#8221; Medical Mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CFIF has joined a broad coalition of fellow conservative and libertarian free-market organizations in opposing any proposed &#8220;Buy American&#8221; mandates on medicines, because they would place unnecessary sourcing requirements upon medicines and medical imputs purchased with federal dollars.\u00a0 That is the last thing that Americans need at the moment, not least because it doesn&#8217;t single out China in the way that some falsely assume, and the just-released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atr.org\/sites\/default\/files\/assets\/4-7-20%20Coalition%20Letter%20Opposed%20to%20Buy%20American%20Mandates.pdf\">coalition letter is worth reading in its entirety here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In that vein, however, this image helpfully illustrates some of the logic behind the letter:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.howmuch.net\/articles\/pharmaceutical-trade-around-the-world_ex-%282%29-0101.jpg\" alt=\"The Peril of a \" width=\"574\" height=\"322\" \/> The Peril of a &#8220;Buy American&#8221; Order<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CFIF has joined a broad coalition of fellow conservative and libertarian free-market organizations in opposing any proposed &#8220;Buy American&#8221; mandates on medicines, because they would place unnecessary sourcing requirements upon medicines and medical imputs purchased with federal dollars.\u00a0 That is the last thing that Americans need at the moment, not least because it doesn&#8217;t single [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5107,5101,1251,5106,4805,167],"class_list":["post-25554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-buy-american","tag-coronavirus","tag-drugs","tag-pandemic","tag-pharmaceuticals","tag-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25554"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25559,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25554\/revisions\/25559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}