Today, the House Energy & Commerce Committee holds a hearing entitled "Lowering Health Care Costs…
CFIF on X CFIF on YouTube
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

Liberty Update

CFIFs latest news, commentary and alerts delivered to your inbox.
What Will Falling Off the Fiscal Cliff Mean for Your State?
By Ashton Ellis
Wednesday, December 05 2012
With all the attention centered on the fallout in the federal budget should President Barack Obama and Congressional Republicans fail to cut a deal that avoids the fiscal cliff, it’s easy to forget that the budgets of most state governments will be heavily impacted as well. To recap, Congress and the President are facing two separate yet related issues.  The first is the expiration of the Bush era tax cuts, as well as a temporary reduction in the payroll tax.  Congressional Republicans want to extend the cuts for all taxpayers, and would probably be willing to extend the payroll…
 
Budget Cuts Can Be Political Winners
For decades now, Republicans have championed the vague idea of budget savings while fearfully shying…
Read more...
Public Unions, Collective Bargaining Drive California’s Deficit
Flush with an estimated $6 billion in new annual tax revenues after voters passed Proposition 30, California…
Read more...
 
“Fiscal Cliff?” Don’t Liberals Constantly Claim Fealty to Clinton-Era Rates?
An urgent alert atop the official White House website announces the following:  “If Congress…
Read more...
The Arab Spring … In Flames
“I have come here to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world;…
Read more...
 
Pentagon Has Role in Homeland Crises
Imagine this scenario: Terrorists are emboldened. They have smuggled several shoulder-mounted missiles…
Read more...
Obama’s Foreign Policy: Flawed Policy, Failed People
Barack Obama – a man whose instincts towards Caesarism don’t quite fit under the rug –…
Read more...
 
Five GOP Bills Obama Should Support
Convinced that he has a mandate to increase taxes in his second term, President Barack Obama is reportedly…
Read more...
Inconvenient Truth: Antarctic Sea Ice Grows to Record Size
Last month, we noted that 2012 data shows that global temperatures stopped warming 16 years ago. …
Read more...
 
Silence of the Media Lambs
Provided the opportunity on Wednesday to assert supposed powers as the “Fourth Estate,” the…
Read more...
A Good Man and a Good Campaign, but a Candidate Who Could Not Win
Imagine if someone assured you on Election Day morning of the following:  Barack Obama would barely…
Read more...
Notable Quote   
 
"This is the moment a statement made on behalf of Iran's new Supreme Leader was read out on state TV, amid rumours he is 'in a coma' and has lost a leg -- or is even dead.The written statement attributed to Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, was read out by a news anchor on state TV this afternoon.He himself did not appear on national TV. His absence will only fuel rumours that he is either too ill to record a…[more]
 
 
— Perkin Amalaraj and Eleanor Mann, Daily Mail
 
Liberty Poll   

What grade would you give the Trump administration for its handling of Iran war?