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House E&C Health Subcommittee Hearing on Healthcare Affordability Offers Opportunity to Advance Real Reform

Today, the House Energy & Commerce Committee holds a hearing entitled "Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: An Examination of the Prescription Drug Supply Chain" that offers another opportunity to advance substantive reform.

CFIF applauds the Committee, and members Brett Guthrie (R - Kentucky) and Morgan Griffith (R - Virginia), for their collective efforts on this issue of affordability.  In that effort, we also continue our own effort to emphasize the importance of avoiding destructive government price controls, which only serve to make lifesaving pharmaceuticals less available to Americans, not more available.  It's also critical to maintain focus on ongoing reform in the pharmaceutical benefit manager (PBM) arena, which actually can bring improvement, as we've consistently…[more]

February 11, 2026 • 09:54 AM

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When Man Looked Up
By Troy Senik
Thursday, February 04 2010
“If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.” -- David Livingstone It is the ineradicable and fatal temptation of leftism to believe that it can begin the world anew. 
 
Soviet communism promised a new order of the ages – a destruction of the class system that would yield an egalitarian utopia. In reality, it was able to produce little more than mediocre vodka and work boots that came in only one size. 
 
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Notable Quote   
 
"Most Americans don't think about electricity until the monthly bill arrives.It comes once a month, often quietly, but lately it's landed like a thud. Heating your home now costs hundreds more a month than it did just a few years ago. You use the same appliances. You flip the same switches. Nothing in your daily life has changed -- except the price.Why?"Read the entire article here.…[more]
 
 
— William Murray, Former Speechwriter for the Environmental Protection Agency and Currently the Chief Speechwriter for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission
 
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