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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Diary of a Conservative
By Troy Senik
Thursday, February 11 2010
As we roll on into year two of the Age of Obama, a few thoughts about politics and society from a frequently implacable conservative: Have you ever heard a liberal say that the government doesn’t have a role in any given segment of American life unless that segment is something that the average citizen finds positively repellant?
  It’s fascinating how often discussions about health care begin with the question of whether or not health care is a right.  It’s a rhetorical trap designed to make anyone who says no seem inhumane.  And frankly…
 
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When Man Looked Up
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10 Things to Hate About the State of the Union
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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?