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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: It’s Law When the President Signs It, but What Is “It?”
By CFIF Staff
Thursday, March 18 2010
Unless President Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi can bribe, blackmail or waterboard their way to the 216 House votes currently required to pass ObamaCare (assuming no one falls suspiciously ill or suffers an equally suspicious accident), it is over, done, finished, kaput...for now. For reasons explained below, it is imperative for opponents of ObamaCare, through every legitimate and lawful protest and grassroots lobbying mechanism known to man, that they not get those 216 votes. If Obama and Pelosi do get their 216 votes, what are those votes for?  They are for the Senate version of…
 
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Obama’s 10 Biggest Foreign Policy Blunders
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The Democrats' Charles Rangel Problem
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— Michael Goodwin, New York Post
 
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