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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 Age of Obama: 2009-2010
By Troy Senik
Thursday, February 18 2010
A generation from now, when historians chronicle presidential leadership around the turn of the century, it’s likely that they’ll find one unifying theme: wasted potential.  In the case of Bill Clinton, an impressive intellect and sophisticated political skills were undermined by an absolute incapacity for either personal or political self-control.  For George W. Bush, a unifying moment of national tragedy yielded to an agenda that first split the nation and then split his own party.
 
With Barack Obama, the fall is both steeper and faster.  This may…
 
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If It’s Broke, Fix It: Paul Ryan’s Plan to Make Government Programs Sustainable
One of the most annoying things about talking policy with progressives is the ambivalence they show towards…
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Diary of a Conservative
As we roll on into year two of the Age of Obama, a few thoughts about politics and society from a frequently…
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Obama Blames His Record Deficits On Bush. He’s Not Being Honest.
Three years after George W. Bush left office, it will still apparently be all his fault in 2011. …
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Some four decades ago, this writer and several of his journalist colleagues working for a now-forgotten…
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When Man Looked Up
“If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want…
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If there is a more painful exercise in American political life than the State of the Union address, it’s…
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As presidential crises go, the opposition of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to a presidential decision…
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Notable Quote   
 
"Abigail Spanberger, the new governor of Virginia who has been tapped to deliver the Democrats' State of the Union reply Tuesday night, is the perfect avatar for her party's deception.With her long blond bob, minimalist makeup, pinched face and brisk air, she looks like the sort of competent working mom you'd encounter at school drop-off in any affluent suburb. In other words, she seems like somebody…[more]
 
 
— Miranda Devine, New York Post
 
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