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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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Liberals Can’t Tell the Truth About Social Security Funding
By Ashton Ellis
Thursday, August 11 2011
During the recently concluded debt ceiling debate, prominent liberals like Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) were fond of saying that reforming Social Security was unnecessary because the program “has nothing to do with the deficit.”  Is that true? Here’s an excerpt from an opinion column Senator Sanders wrote on July 21, arguing that Social Security should not be included in any deficit reduction negotiations: “I heard Democrats say that Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit.  That is right because Social Security is funded by the payroll tax, not…
 
Against Bernanke’s Market Manipulations
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The Battlefield Cross
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Out of Balance: Why the Critics Are Wrong About the Balanced Budget Amendment
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Connie Mack: Trying to Balance the Budget a Few (Trillion) Pennies at a Time
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What Constitutes “Poverty” In America Today
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Smaller Torts Make for Savory Politics
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For the dictatorial Obama Administration, things are deteriorating from bad to borderline catastrophic. …
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Next Step: Growth
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Notable Quote   
 
"House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, this week suggested that the panel he leads would hold a markup of a bill to crack down on sanctuary cities in the coming weeks, as major metropolitan areas continue to clash with the Trump administration over immigration enforcement.'Sanctuary' jurisdictions refer to states, cities, and municipalities that have declared that they will not cooperate…[more]
 
 
— Ben Whedon, Just the News
 
Liberty Poll   

On a lighter note for a change (unless you engage in fisticuffs over curling), do you generally prefer watching the sports of the Winter Olympics or those of the Summer Olympics?