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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The Return of the Cadillac Tax?
Like the phoenix, a key piece of the Affordable Care Act has risen from the ashes, resurrected, believe it or not, by the Republican Study Committee…
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Free the Economy podcast: Paying for organs with Pete Jaworski
In this week’s episode we cover the future of AI and employment, why we shouldn’t trust Chinese economic statistics, and how the…
City Journal
A Solution in Search of a Problem
In his State of the Union address, President Biden touted the drug-price controls in his Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Though the price controls have yet…
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Recognize the Deadly Effects of Over-Regulating Medicines and Medical Devices
Full Document Available in PDF Over the past…
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Reject the Precautionary Principle, a Threat to Technological Progress
Full Document Available in PDF Increasingly, governments and environmental activists…
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Obamacare Makes State Budget Problems Worse
Obamacare is making state budget problems much worse, as governors now lament. Earlier, CEI filed an amicus brief in Florida v. HHS on…
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Food Safety
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Happy Meal Lawsuit, cont’d
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Should Obamacare Be Struck Down In Its Entirety Rather Than Just Having Its Unconstitutional Parts Severed?
In his ruling striking down Obamacare’s individual mandate (requirement that people buy health insurance), Judge Hudson in Richmond declined to strike down the rest…
Op-Eds
Judge Should Have Struck Down Entire Law (Letter to the Editor)
This editorial about a federal judge striking down Obamacare’s individual insurance-purchase mandate rightly noted that the law lacks a severability clause. Because of…
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Is Obamacare’s Government Healthcare Takeover a “Civil Right”?
Doug Powers takes aim at the silly argument by the Obama administration that opposing Obamacare is analogous to opposing basic civil rights. As he…
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Reactions to Court Ruling Striking Down Part of Obamacare in Virginia v. Sebelius
Yesterday, a federal judge in Richmond struck down Obamacare’s requirement that individuals buy health insurance. Cato Institute’s Ilya Shapiro reacts to the decision…
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V.A. Judge Rules Against Obama’s Health Care Law
A Virginia federal judge has declared federal health care legislation unconstitutional. In response to the decision, which was handed down earlier today, CEI General…
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Ruling in Virginia’s Challenge to Obamacare Individual Mandate Expected Today
A ruling in Virginia’s constitutional challenge to Obamacare’s individual mandate is expected later today. The Competitive Enterprise Institute joined in an amicus brief filed…
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Food Safety: Why Is the Food Safety Bill So Controversial?
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Judge to Obamacare architects: Ahem. Meet the Constitution, power-grabbers.
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Federal Judge Strikes Down Obamacare Mandate as Unconstitutional
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The Health Care Law Under the Judicial Knife: Some Early Reactions
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McDonald’s Obesity Class Action Dismissed
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People Do What You Pay Them to Do
This seems like an obvious statement. But Big Government is shocked — shocked! — when it pays doctors to perform surgeries instead of taking time for…
Washington Examiner
Government Health Programs Skew Incentives; People Respond
Forget QE2; this is QED. When a health-care providing government pays doctors according to how many procedures they perform, rather than by the effectiveness or…
Washington Examiner
The Food Industry Plays Regulatory Roulette
Washington Examiner
Food safety bill update (and welcome readers)
Washington Examiner
More FDA Authority Won’t Improve Food Safety
In its rush to enact sweeping new food safety legislation during the lame-duck session, Congress hit a procedural roadblock that may put the bill off…
Washington Examiner
The Environmental Impact Subterfuge
Action needs to be taken to prevent anti-biotech activists from co-opting environmental law to derail the planting of transgenic crops that have already received regulatory…
Washington Examiner
Trimming the Fat
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Safe Drinking Water Act Overview
Full Document Available in PDF Since passage of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)…
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Pesticides and Public Health
Full Document Available in PDF In recent years, public health authorities have expressed serious…
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Pesticides and Agriculture
Full Document Available in PDF In 1989, environmental activists claimed that a chemical called Alar…
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Food Quality Protection Act
Full Document Available in PDF In 1996, the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) amended the two…
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International Fisheries
Full Document Available in PDF The history of fisheries management in the United States largely…
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Amicus in Obamacare Litigation on Behalf of Minn., Rhode Island Governors
Full Document Avalible in PDF The Competitive Enterprise Institute is representing Governors Tim Pawlenty (R, Minn.) and Donald Carcieri (R, Rhode Island)…
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Population
Full Document Available in PDF In his 1798 Essay on the Principle of Population, Thomas Malthus argued…
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Cancer Trends
Full Document Available in PDF In recent decades, many have claimed that cancer is rising…
Washington Examiner
‘Natural’ Foods Activist Gets It Wrong
Washington Examiner
Does FDA’s Caffeinated Alcoholic Beverage Ban go too Far?
Washington Examiner
Brief of Governors Tim Pawlenty and Donald L. Carcieri As Amici Curiae In Support of Plaintiffs’ Motion for Summary Judgment
Washington Examiner
FDA Criticized for Ban on Alcoholic Energy Drinks
Washington Examiner
Agencies Target ‘Blackout in a Can’
Washington Examiner
Greg Conko on “Frankenfish”
Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Gregory Conko discusses the benefits and safety of genetically engineered foods. Humans have altered the genetic material of their food…
Fox News
FDA’s Graphic Warnings for Cigarettes: Noble Ad Campaign or Nanny State at Work?
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Amicus Motion in Obamacare Litigation
The Competitive Enterprise Institute is representing Governors Tim Pawlenty (R, Minn.) and Donald Carcieri (R, Rhode Island) seeking permission to file an amicus brief in…
Philly.com
Pawlenty Joins in Overhaul Suit
Google News
Minn.’s Pawlenty Ups Challenge to Fed Health Law
Google News
Pawlenty Seeks to Add Voice to Health Care Suit
Google News
USDA’s System Invites Lawsuits, Researchers Say
Politico
Tim Pawlenty Joins Health Bill Lawsuit
Politico
Pawlenty Ups Challenge to Health Care Law
Texas Insider
An End to Out-of-State Beer?
Washington Times
Cigarette Warnings to be More Graphic?
US News
Tobacco Settlement Could Go to the Supreme Court
MPR News
Little Change to Agriculture Policy, Even as Peterson Loses Chair
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Obamacare to Wipe Out 800,000 Jobs Through Work Disincentives
Obamacare is going to wipe out 800,000 jobs through its disincentives to work. That contrasts sharply with false claims by House Speaker Nancy…