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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 Politician America Needs: Margaret Thatcher
By Troy Senik
Thursday, November 12 2009
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it, good and hard.”  That was the verdict of H.L. Mencken, the Baltimore wag who many consider one of the greatest journalists of the early 20th century.  That his judgment stands up nearly a hundred years later goes to prove that he probably deserves the title. 
 
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For All They Have Done, For All They Have Sacrificed
The Congress shall have Power To provide for the common Defence  ...
To raise and support…
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The Obama Way: First Throw Down, Then Throw Up
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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
 
Liberty Poll   

In a period of extreme political hostility and confrontation, are you more or less engaged in causes most meaningful to you?