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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Free the Economy podcast: Empowering patients with Vance Ginn
In this week’s episode we cover potential changes to quarterly reporting for public companies, state-level AI regulations, spiking gas prices in…

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The current state of pharmaceutical tariffs
Background Amid the Trump trade upheaval, pharmaceutical products receive different treatment than many other US imports. Pharmaceuticals are treated differently for reasons such as their…

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Point: Medicaid Work Requirements Are a Common-Sense Reform
Medicaid is the government program that is supposed to help the poor afford health care. Its cost to taxpayers has skyrocketed in the last few…
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Issues in the News 1. INTERNET Google’s new video service raises questions about copyright protection technology. CEI Expert Available for…
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Fill the Moat, Lower the Portcullis
The issues surrounding the possibility of a pandemic of the H5N1 strain of avian flu are extraordinarily complex, encompassing aspects of medicine, epidemiology,…
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Flu pandemic prevention
This month's outbreak of H5N1 avian flu in Turkey—as many as 50 human cases and several deaths—looks very like what we might see…
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Europe’s Global REACH: Chemical Regulations in Europe Promise Worldwide Costs
This month, the European Parliament voted in favor of a massive new expansion of the European Union's (EU) chemical regulations. Known as REACH—which stands for…
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The Tale of a Medical Device
Senator Hillary Clinton traveled 6,000 miles to dramatize the need for faster medical device approvals. Hard to believe, isn’t it? In fact, Sen. Clinton…
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Millennium Challenged? New Approach to Foreign Aid Threatens to Become More of the Same
Standing alongside U2 lead singer Bono in March 2002, President Bush announced the formation of a “new compact for global development, defined by new accountability.”…
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Cruel and Unusual: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
On January 9, two employees of the group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) will appear in court to answer felony…
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Issues in the News 1. ENERGY A conflict between Ukraine and Russia threatens to undermine natural gas supplies to much of…
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Ominous Prospects for Aging
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal described “a growing backlash against the pharmaceutical industry that is already affecting the development and…
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Issues in the News 1. TELECOMMUNICATIONS Technology security firms are warning computer users to beware of a flaw in Microsoft Windows which…
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Issues in the News 1. LABOR The New York City Transport Workers Union’s executive board votes to approve a new…
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Issues in the News 1. BIOTECHNOLOGY Researchers in Iran announce the impending birth of that nation’s first generation of…
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Issues in the News 1. FINANCE Government agencies target mortgage brokers for alleged “predatory lending” practices CEI Expert Available for…
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Issues in the News 1. HEALTH & SAFETY DuPont agrees to pay a $16.5 million dollar EPA fine related to alleged…
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Issues in the News 1. TELECOM Microsoft and MCI announce a new venture to offer Internet-based phone service.
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Enviros Exaggerated Montreal Summit
A world historical event occurred in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Montreal in the hours before dawn on December 10. What? …
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Lives for Votes
December 15, 2005 — With his record, a call from state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is enough to give even innocent defendants…
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Issues in the News 1. INTERNET People around the globe celebrate 15 years of the World Wide Web.
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Good Drugs, Bad Rap
These are turbulent times for the pharmaceutical industry and for its regulator, the FDA. Lately, both have focused increasingly on issues of safety.
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Issues in the News 1. REGULATORY COSTS President Bush speaks about controlling the costs imposed on business by regulatory expenses. CEI…
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Issues in the News 1. GLOBAL WARMING The US maintains its opposition to forced emissions cuts at the UN climate…
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Issues in the News 1. HEALTH & SAFETY The SEC changes rules that would have hindered efforts to fight avian flu.
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Issues in the News 1. GLOBAL WARMING Attendees to the U.N. climate conference in Montreal are unlikely to set…
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SEC Changes Policy to Combat Potential Bird Flu Epidemic
Washington, D.C., December 6, 2005—In a move that could save thousands of lives, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has cleared the red tape of…
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Issues in the News<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> 1. INTERNET A bug in…
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Issues in the News 1. TOBACCO A new study finds that very little of the money that states have…
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Global Warming Blues
The 11th annual meeting of global warming enthusiasts in Montreal isn’t turning out to be a very happy event. Even though this is the…
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Why the Top-Down Approach Has Failed
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Another World AIDS Day has arrived (Dec. 1) and with it more HIV cases than ever before—over 40 million. The World…
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Issues in the News 1. INTERNET New Orleans announces the development of a free, city-wide wireless network. CEI Expert Available…
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Issues in the News 1. TELECOMMUNICATIONS The Federal Communications Commission is expected to announce renewed efforts toward forcing cable companies…
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Issues in the News 1. HEALTH & SAFETY Drug maker Merck & Co. announces layoffs of 7,000 workers amid uncertainty surrounding…
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Misspending, Abuses Marks Tobacco Settlement Anniversary
Christine Hall, 202.331.2258 Washington, D.C., November 28, 2005—Seven years ago this month, the states signed the biggest settlement deal in history with major tobacco…
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Cardiac arrest at the FDA
The photograph on your Tuesday front page headlined “Hillary health care” shows Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, New York Democrat, in Jerusalem holding a CardioPump—a device…
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Issues in the News 1. ENERGY The Senate rejects the latest attempt to levy a windfall profits tax on oil companies.
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U.S. Should Not Import European Laws
As globalization fosters economic growth around the world, Americans should be vigilant of an unintended consequence: the imposition on U.S. businesses and consumers of the…
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Sen. Hillary Clinton Pushes for Faster FDA Approvals?
Contact: Jody Clarke, 202.331.2252 Washington, D.C., November 18, 2005—On her trip to Israel this week, Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) took part in a photo-op…
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Issues in the News 1. HEALTH & SAFETY The European Parliament endorses a new system of regulation for chemicals. …
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Issues in the News 1. ENERGY The Senate Finance Committee approves a $5 billion windfall profits tax on the nation’s…
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Do-It-Yourself Legislation
The aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita have proved a massive breeding ground for what former OECD Chief Economist David Henderson has termed…
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The UN’s War Against Innovation
The leadership of the United Nations is truly the gang that can't shoot straight. Even if the recent incidents of corruption and profiteering—exemplified…
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Making Sense of Drug Safety
Have you ever tried to read the official FDA-approved labeling for a drug? It's tough going even for physicians who are trying to…
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Issues in the News 1. INTERNET Tunisia, host of a United Nations summit on the future of the Internet,…
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Issues in the News 1. INTERNET Time Warner and AOL announce a new venture to…
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Issues in the News 1. LEGAL & CONSTITUTIONAL Federalist Society members volunteer praise for Supreme Court nominee…
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Europe’s OverREACH
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House Urged to Reconsider Arctic and Offshore Oil Exploration
Contact: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 Washington, D.C., November…
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1. TOBACCO The U.S. declines to ratify the World Health Organization’s anti-tobacco treaty which calls on countries to enact limits on…
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Issues in the News 1. HEALTH AND SAFETY The President’s $7.1 billion plan to fight a possible avian flu pandemic…
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Issues in the News 1. ENVIRONMENT Greenpeace is fined for damaging a coral reef with its ship Rainbow Warrior…
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DDT Saves Lives in Fight against Malaria
Full Document Available in PDF The President’s decision in June to…