Today, the House Energy & Commerce Committee holds a hearing entitled "Lowering Health Care Costs…
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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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Labor Thuggery at the Supreme Court
By Betsy McCaughey
Wednesday, February 28 2018
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— Ben Whedon, Just the News
 
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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?