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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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Just the Facts: Liberals Spread Others’ Wealth Around, Conservatives Spread Their Own
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, January 06 2011
“When you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”  So lectured aspiring redistributor Barack Obama to aspiring entrepreneur Joe “The Plumber” Wurzelbacher in October 2008.  Survivors of relentless Soviet efforts to spread the wealth around between 1917 and 1991 might beg to differ.  Regardless, Obama applies that logic to everybody else’s money more than his own.  Based upon an analysis of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax returns that very year, University of Cincinnati College of Law Professor Paul Caron reported that Obama…
 
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The Lamestream Media’s Perpetual Bias Against Sarah Palin
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Dear President Obama,
 
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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?