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.
Healthcare Issue Areas
Featured Posts
Blog
New FDA lab tests rule could bankrupt small labs
Yesterday the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that on May 6 it will promulgate a rule under its authority to regulate medical devices.
National Review
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…
Blog
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…
Search Posts
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. TECHNOLOGY Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez announces the creation of a new center for…
Op-Eds
Politics Nixed In Cancer Stick Flick
When Christopher Buckley’s novel Thank You for Smoking came out in 1994 it was a surprising satire of the vilification of the tobacco…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. HEALTH The United Nations marks the importance of clean drinking water in the developing world with…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. ENERGY Ethanol producers could face problems during the summer driving season when demand is expected to…
Op-Eds
New Drug Demagoguery
“New Drugs Hit the Market, but Promised Trials Go Undone” and “FDA: Drug Companies Drop Ball on Studies,” the headlines blared.
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. CONGRESS The Senate passes a budget resolution which includes provisions allowing oil and gas exploration in…
Op-Eds
Wi-fi? Why Not?
Walking around a corner, one never knows what will appear. Yet in order to move forward, it’s often necessary to turn corners anyway,…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. ENERGY Executives from major oil companies testify before Congress on industry profits. CEI Expert Available…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. FINANCE The Securities and Exchange Commission may ease corporate accounting regulations on small public…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. ENERGY Many of the hurricane-damaged energy facilities in the Gulf Coast are still offline. CEI…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. LEGAL Congress considers the question of what can be done with copyrighted material whose owner cannot…
Op-Eds
EPA Whips Up Air Pollution Scare
The air pollution scare industry is at it again — in a very timely manner to help the Environmental Protection Agency impose more dubious…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. BUSINESS AT&T announces a merger with BellSouth, pending approval by the FCC and U.S. Justice Department.
Op-Eds
Patients vs. Paternalism
Decisions about drug safety and efficacy are far from easy. Tysabri, a multiple sclerosis (MS) drug that was voluntarily withdrawn from the market last year…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. SCIENCE A new study predicts half of all children in North and South America will be…
Op-Eds
No Beef in Meat Packaging Controversy
Yet another potential food scare is being manufactured out of thin air — or rather out of carbon monoxide. Last November, with little fanfare,…
Op-Eds
The Lancet Pricks Itself
The term “medical journals” elicits automatic respect from most people. Not from me: I read them. I've found the editors to be increasingly…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. SAFETY Congress considers legislation to standardize food labeling and safety warnings. CEI Expert…
Op-Eds
WTO and Biotech Food: Who Really Won?
The long-awaited World Trade Organization decision on biotechnology applied to agricultural products, finally released earlier this month, elicited a great deal of buzz…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. FINANCE A new report finds executives at mortgage lender Fannie Mae responsible for an…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. ENERGY Three major oil companies prepare to open a major new natural gas pipeline…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. LEGAL McDonald’s french fries are attacked for containing traces of wheat and dairy products. CEI…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. HEALTH The EPA tells people not to throw out their Teflon cookware CEI Expert Available to…
Op-Eds
In the Interests of Stakeholders… and Steakholders
There was good news last month on both sides of our northern border: In response to confirmation of an isolated case of bovine…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. ENVIRONMENT Paramount Pictures agrees to distribute a documentary on global warming starring former Vice President…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. BUDGET President Bush’s proposed federal budget attracts an array of critics. CEI Expert Available to Comment:…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. HURRICANE KATRINA The House of Representatives finds failures in the response to Hurricane Katrina at all levels…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. GLOBAL WARMING National Academy of Sciences agrees to referee climate-change research. CEI Expert Available…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. BIOTECHNOLOGY The World Trade Organization rules against European restrictions on genetically modified foods. CEI…
Op-Eds
Low-Fat Diet Myth Busted
The widely-believed notion that low-fat diets are good for your health went “poof” this week—although the busting of that myth shouldn’t be news to…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. TELECOMMUNICATIONS A Verizon Communications executive blasts Google for freeloading on Verizon infrastructure as Congress prepares to debate…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. TELECOMMUNICATIONS AOL and Yahoo announce plans to charge to send certified email, fueling the debate…
Op-Eds
Three Cheers for WTO Decision on Biotech Food
What do an <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Iowa corn grower, a Thai rice farmer, and a Dutch grocery shopper have…
News Release
CEI Praises Major WTO Decision on Biotech Food
Contact: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Christine Hall, 202.331.2258 Jody Clarke, 202.331.2252…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. HEALTH & SAFETY West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin calls for the temporary shutdown…
Op-Eds
We Have It Coming
Americans are about to learn the hard way about the unintended consequences of over-regulation and flawed policy initiatives. Vaccination to prevent viral and bacterial…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. BUSINESS Jury selection begins today in the trial of former Enron executives Kenneth…
Letters
Letter to EPA on Human Volunteer Pesticide Testing
Full Document Available in PDF The use of human volunteers in research studies…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. HEALTH & SAFETY A miner who survived an explosion at the Sago coal mine in West…
Op-Eds
FDA May Make Breathing Difficult for Asthmatics
The government may tell asthmatics to “take a hit” for the environment. But that “hit” won't be from their inhalers, which might be taken…
News Release
EPA Makes Right Decision on Use of Human Volunteers in Pesticide Safety Studies
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Contact: Jody Clarke, 202.331.2252 <?xml:namespace prefix…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. INTERNET A major computer hacker pleads guilty in federal court to hijacking hundreds of thousands of…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. HEALTH & SAFETY The Food and Drug Administration approves fat-blocking drug Xenical for over-the-counter sales.
Op-Eds
How Roe Destroyed Privacy
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. HEALTH & SAFETY The World Health Organization raises concerns about resistance to a key…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. HEALTH & SAFETY The Food and Drug Administration announces new guidelines for prescription drug…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. HEALTH & SAFETY International leaders warn that the world is not ready to confront a possible…
Op-Eds
PETA: Cruel and Unusual
The FBI recently declared environmental and animal rights extremism its top domestic terrorism priority. The bureau is currently investigating over 150 cases of…
Op-Eds
Some Hard Truths About Bird Flu
The issues surrounding the possibility of a pandemic of the H5N1 strain of avian flu are extraordinarily complex, encompassing medicine, epidemiology, virology and even…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. BUSINESS The Maryland legislature moves to require Wal-Mart to spend more on employee health…
Op-Eds
Plants Bad for the Environment? Celebrities Causing Frogs to Croak?
Could it be that celebrities are planting the forests that are causing the global warming that is growing the bacteria that are wiping out the…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. HEALTH & SAFETY The EPA proposes to change the standard for testing gas mileage…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. INTERNET Google’s new video service raises questions about copyright protection technology. CEI Expert Available for…
Op-Eds
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,…
Op-Eds
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…
Products
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…
Products
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…
Products
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.”…
Op-Eds
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…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. ENERGY A conflict between Ukraine and Russia threatens to undermine natural gas supplies to much of…
Op-Eds
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…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. TELECOMMUNICATIONS Technology security firms are warning computer users to beware of a flaw in Microsoft Windows which…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. LABOR The New York City Transport Workers Union’s executive board votes to approve a new…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. BIOTECHNOLOGY Researchers in Iran announce the impending birth of that nation’s first generation of…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. FINANCE Government agencies target mortgage brokers for alleged “predatory lending” practices CEI Expert Available for…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily
Issues in the News 1. HEALTH & SAFETY DuPont agrees to pay a $16.5 million dollar EPA fine related to alleged…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. TELECOM Microsoft and MCI announce a new venture to offer Internet-based phone service.
Op-Eds
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? …
Op-Eds
Lives for Votes
December 15, 2005 — With his record, a call from state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is enough to give even innocent defendants…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. INTERNET People around the globe celebrate 15 years of the World Wide Web.
Op-Eds
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.
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. REGULATORY COSTS President Bush speaks about controlling the costs imposed on business by regulatory expenses. CEI…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. GLOBAL WARMING The US maintains its opposition to forced emissions cuts at the UN climate…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. HEALTH & SAFETY The SEC changes rules that would have hindered efforts to fight avian flu.
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. GLOBAL WARMING Attendees to the U.N. climate conference in Montreal are unlikely to set…
News Release
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…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> 1. INTERNET A bug in…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. TOBACCO A new study finds that very little of the money that states have…
Op-Eds
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…
Op-Eds
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…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. INTERNET New Orleans announces the development of a free, city-wide wireless network. CEI Expert Available…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. TELECOMMUNICATIONS The Federal Communications Commission is expected to announce renewed efforts toward forcing cable companies…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. HEALTH & SAFETY Drug maker Merck & Co. announces layoffs of 7,000 workers amid uncertainty surrounding…
News Release
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…
Op-Eds
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…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. ENERGY The Senate rejects the latest attempt to levy a windfall profits tax on oil companies.
Op-Eds
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…
News Release
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…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. HEALTH & SAFETY The European Parliament endorses a new system of regulation for chemicals. …
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. ENERGY The Senate Finance Committee approves a $5 billion windfall profits tax on the nation’s…
Op-Eds
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…
Op-Eds
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…
Op-Eds
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…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. INTERNET Tunisia, host of a United Nations summit on the future of the Internet,…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. INTERNET Time Warner and AOL announce a new venture to…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. LEGAL & CONSTITUTIONAL Federalist Society members volunteer praise for Supreme Court nominee…
Op-Eds
Europe’s OverREACH
News Release
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…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
1. TOBACCO The U.S. declines to ratify the World Health Organization’s anti-tobacco treaty which calls on countries to enact limits on…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. HEALTH AND SAFETY The President’s $7.1 billion plan to fight a possible avian flu pandemic…