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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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The Limited Government Senate Class of 2010?
By Troy Senik
Tuesday, March 02 2010
Washington has been beset by a bout of temporary paralysis; which is to say good sense.  Forty-one Republicans in the Senate having held up the capitol’s previously regnant liberalism, the District of Columbia is now infested with left-wing columnists, lattes half-emptied, breathlessly claiming that the upper chamber is broken.  They are right – and it has been for 97 years.
 
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Deficits Are a Symptom … Not the Disease
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Obama’s “Hope” – The New Tramp Stamp of Political Decals
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“America continues to move from Keynesian to Ponzian economics.”  So said former chess…
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Al Gore Pivots to the Bottom Line
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The Age of Obama: 2009-2010
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Executive Orders Reveal Executive Weakness
It is the common fate of presidents to learn that occupying the most powerful office in the world amounts…
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Global Warming Dead-Enders Imitate Gilligan’s Island
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If It’s Broke, Fix It: Paul Ryan’s Plan to Make Government Programs Sustainable
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Will President Obama Make Recess Appointments?
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Notable Quote   
 
"'The bottom line is this: voter ID is not controversial in this country,' Harry Enten, the chief data analyst for CNN, recently reported. Nor is it controversial in virtually any other country in the world. Yet despite massive support among both Democrats (71%) and Republicans (95%), only one Democratic member of the House and one in the Senate are supporting the SAVE Act. Unless seven more of the…[more]
 
 
— John R. Lott Jr., President of the Crime Prevention Research Center
 
Liberty Poll   

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?