For over three decades, CEI has advocated health care reforms that put more power in the hands of consumers to choose their health providers, treatment protocols, and scope of insurance coverage. We have advocated reform of the Food and Drug Administration’s drug and device approval process to allow for greater flexibility and patient choice. And in 2013, CEI organized the court challenges to Obamacare’s exchange subsidies that concluded with the Supreme Court’s King v. Burwell decision.
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FDA commissioner resignation opens opportunity for refocus on science over politics
After a somewhat tumultuous tenure, FDA commissioner Marty Makary is stepping down. While Dr. Makary made his mission to accelerate drug approval and bring a…
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Don’t hinder biosimilar development
In its most recent legislative session, the Florida legislature considered precluding pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) from holding an investment interest in biosimilar manufacturing. That…
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The unseen costs of banning PBM-owned pharmacies in Tennessee
Tennessee lawmakers recently passed the FAIR Rx Act, which would bar companies from owning pharmacies while also operating a pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) and…
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DAILY DIARY – DEBUNK THE JUNK, APRIL 23, 2004
“In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because…
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DAILY DIARY – DEBUNK THE JUNK, APRIL 29, 2004
“I’m on a seafood diet, I see food, I eat it.” – Dolly Parton<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />…
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Abusing Substance Abuse Data
I haven't covered the issue of alcohol for a while, but a recent set of headlines had a reek of moonshine about them.
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DAILY DIARY – DEBUNK THE JUNK, APRIL 28, 2004
“A month long diet at McDonalds nearly killed one filmmaker…..” – Channel 4 Evening News, <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns…
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DAILY DIARY – DEBUNK THE JUNK, APRIL 27, 2004
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> “The world faces some real problems, but those problems do not portend…
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DAILY DIARY – DEBUNK THE JUNK, APRIL 22, 2004
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> “Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do…