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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Blowing the Big Moment Is Only Human, Scientists Discover
By Betsy McCaughey
Wednesday, February 18 2026
The collapse of young Ilia Malinin – the U.S. figure skater known as the Quad God – on Olympic ice last Friday is the moment in this year's games most watchers will remember. Few of us can imagine performing the feats of these athletes, but we can all relate to blowing a high-stakes moment. It's part of the human experience.  Why does it happen? Scientists studying three rhesus lab monkeys (named Earl, Nelson and Ford) have the beginning of an answer. And the research offers comfort to Malinin and the rest of us, indicating we shouldn't be too harsh on ourselves.…
 
Shut Up and Ski
Does anyone really believe the international media cares what Olympic snowboarders and curlers think…
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CFIF Joins Coalition Letter Opposing Codification of Most Favored Nation (MFN) Drug Pricing
 In a letter led by Americans for Tax Reform and sent to Congress this week, the Center…
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Debunking the Walter Cronkite “That’s the Way It Is” Media Myth
Another downsizing at The Washington Post has triggered predictable lamentations and nostalgic commentaries…
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Congress May Finally Touch the 'Third Rail.' Inflation Will Hold Them Accountable.
Your representatives may finally grab the feared "third rail" of U.S. politics. When the Social…
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If ICE Is Hamstrung, Hold on to Your Wallets
A new Harvard/Harris public opinion poll shows two-thirds of Americans now disapprove of Immigration…
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Dow 50,000: A Supply-Side Miracle
When I first arrived in Washington in 1982, the Dow Jones hit a low of 800. You may not believe that…
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The Clintons Are So Over
What do you call a former two-term president of the United States and his wife, a former first lady,…
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Don't Cry for The Washington Post, It Helped Destroy Media
In December of 2016, The Washington Post reported that Russian hackers had penetrated the U.S. electricity…
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The “Party of Science” Somehow Misses Its Own Laboratory Failures
Leftists gratingly insist – loudly and self-confidently – that they represent the “party…
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What's Behind the Wild New Wealth Tax Proposals?
When government grows to dominate ever-larger shares of the economy, and when politicians refuse to be…
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Notable Quote   
 
"State Rep. James Talarico topped Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett in an expensive and fiercely contested Texas Senate Democratic primary that once again has the party dreaming of a big upset in November.Who Talarico will face depends on a May runoff between longtime Republican Sen. John Cornyn and MAGA favorite Ken Paxton -- a race expected to get increasingly nasty over coming months and could hinge…[more]
 
 
— Thomas Beaumont and Will Weissert, Associate Press
 
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