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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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ObamaCare Takeaway: A Net Win Constitutionally
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, June 28 2012
Years from now, here is the proposition for which law students will study this week’s Supreme Court ObamaCare decision:  Federal power is not unlimited under the commerce clause after all.  Granted, the United States Supreme Court engaged in a contortion worthy of Cirque de Soleil in upholding ObamaCare’s individual mandate as a “tax,” despite the fact that Obama himself denied it was a tax and Congress did not offer it as such.  In a September 20, 2009 interview with ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos, Barack Obama stubbornly and unequivocally denied…
 
Obama Administration: Leak Vital Military Secrets, but Conceal Relevant “Fast & Furious” Documents
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State Reform Spotlight: What a MESSA! Michigan’s Fight to Save Money on Teacher Health Insurance
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Mitch Daniels: A Study in Political Character
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Is Liberalism Really Dead?
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Steak Dinners and Slurpees: Numbers Refute Obama’s Attempt to Blame Deficits on Tax Cuts and Wars
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Report: Obama’s UAW Bailout Swindle Confirmed
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Congressional Spend-fest Continues
This country is still spending itself into oblivion, and not even the Republican House is putting up…
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It was the gaffe heard ‘round the world. If Barack Obama’s political adversaries had been…
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Notable Quote   
 
"David Keene, a towering figure in the growth of the modern conservative movement who was equally comfortable in the weeds of grassroots politics and in the corridors of power in Washington, died Sunday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 80.Mr. Keene spent years at the pinnacle, forging the Conservative Political Action Conference into the must-attend event for Republican White House hopefuls…[more]
 
 
— Stephen Dinan, The Washington Times
 
Liberty Poll   

Many military experts believe that "boots on the ground" will be required to neuter Iran's destructive demeanor. Would you approve or disapprove of that step?