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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How The No Surprises Act worsened the problem of surprise bills
Next week, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) will convene a roundtable to discuss adjustments to the 2020 No Surprises Act, which has come under…
National Review
Prescription Drugs Save Lives at a (Mostly) Reasonable Cost
Prescription drugs are an extraordinary lifesaving and life-enhancing technology, so integrated into our daily lives that, nowadays, we perhaps take them for granted. Headlines and…
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FDA deserves credit for approval pancreatic cancer drug
The FDA on August 26 approved a new breakthrough drug to treat pancreatic cancer. CEI Senior Fellow and Economist Jeremy Nighohossian praised…
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States can keep Medicaid whole if they want
Congress is considering slowing Medicaid growth over the next 10 years enough to reduce federal spending by $625 billion. Many Republicans argue that…
The Washington Examiner
Capping drug prices will cripple innovation and harm public health
The Washington Examiner cited CEI’s expert on life-saving drugs and technology The Competitive Enterprise Institute was similarly scathing. “As with many industries, the…
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Free the Economy podcast: Reforming Medicaid with Brian Blase
In a recent episode we cover biofuels and farm tariffs, the decline in green investing, and the effort to stop state…
The Epoch Times
What to Know About Trump’s Plan to Slash Drug Prices
The Epoch Times cited CEI’s expert on drug prices “Jeremy Nighohossian, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a libertarian think tank,…
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GOP proposal includes reductions in health care expenditures
Over the weekend the House Committee on Energy and Commerce released a proposal describing how it would achieve the expenditure goals for the…
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The numbers don’t add up in new Medicaid paper
In a recently released working paper, authors Angela Wyse and Bruce D. Meyer purport to show that the ACA Medicaid expansion saved 27,400…