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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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Taxpayers March on Washington, D.C.
By Sam Batkins
Wednesday, September 16 2009
Protests.  For decades, they have been the province of the political left.  Anti-war activists, pro-choice proponents and roving anti-capitalist bands have all had a virtual monopoly on one of the First Amendment’s most cherished rights, the right of assembly. However, last Saturday, September 12, hundreds of thousands of taxpayers from all fifty states gathered in the aptly-named Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C. to protest the excessive spending and big government programs being pushed and expanded upon by Congress and the President.  The protesters – everyday…
 
Norman Borlaug – Losing a Legend
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The embarrassing saga of federal regulators’ failure to stop Bernard Madoff’s multibillion-dollar…
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This “New” ObamaCare Game Is for Suckers, Just Like the Old One
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A Victory for Free Speech or More of the McCain?
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Help Wanted: CIA Director
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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?