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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This week in health care policy: September 21–25, 2026
Innovation watch FDA approves the first treatment for Sanfilippo syndrome. On September 17, the FDA approved Ultragenyx’s Fayuvi, a one-time…
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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…
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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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Drug lag — precaution or pipelines?
According to a CNN Money article, a report released yesterday shows that the FDA has been cracking down on new drug approvals. Pharmaceutical companies…
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Issues in the News 1. HEALTH A pending bill in Congress would ban the use of genetic testing by insurance companies…
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Issues in the News 1. ENVIRONMENT NASA orders a review of climate data after an independent researcher discovers that 1934 – not 1998 as…
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No Excuse for Resistance to DDT
Anti-DDT activists in the environmental movement often suggest we should stop using this chemical to save people from malaria and other diseases because mosquitoes will…
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Issues in the News 1. LEGAL Government officials in Nigeria attempt to sue drug maker Pfizer for $2 billion. CEI…
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More on Bad Court Ruling Against Terminally Ill
“Terminally ill patients do not have a constitutional right to be treated with experimental drugs, even if they likely will be dead before the medicine…
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Drug Maker Faces Lawsuit by Corrupt, Kooky Foreign Government
Pfizer is seeking the dismissal of a $2 billion lawsuit by the Nigerian state of Kano. Pfizer’s purported offense was to give children an…
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UN Group Rejects Precautionary Principle
The Codex Alimentarius Commission, a joint UN Food and Agricultural Organization-World Health Organization food safety standard-setting body, has apparently agreed to exclude the…
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Issues in the News 1. TECHNOLOGY Tech consultants raise concerns that public Internet access points may pose a threat to a user’s…
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Court Rejects Terminally Ill Patients’ Chance to Live, Upholds FDA Red Tape
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled 8-to-2 in Abigail Alliance v. Von Eschenbach that terminally ill people cannot challenge the FDA's ban…
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FDA Tobacco Regulation Assailed
In the New York Times, Patrick Basham explains why the bill to give the Food and Drug Administration the duty to regulate tobacco is…
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Goofy’s Coffin Nails
When it comes to the politics of tobacco regulation, one of the most important dates is January 11, 1964, when then-Surgeon General Luther L. Terry…
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FDA Tobacco Regulation Clears Senate Committee
A Senate committee has just voted 13-to-8 in favor of the bill to give the FDA jurisdiction over tobacco products and the tobacco industry.
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Issues in the News 1. BUSINESS Supermarket chain Whole Foods pursues a buyout bid for rival Wild Oats Markets. CEI…
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Issues in the News 1. LEGAL The Federalist Society hosts a forum on state attorney general activism. …
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FDA Tobacco Regulation Bill Tramples Free Speech, Advertisers Say
Advertisers are objecting to the bill that would subject the tobacco industry to FDA regulation, saying that its restrictions on tobacco advertising would violate…
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Issues in the News 1. FOOD Federal regulators consider new safety rules for milk and meat from cloned animals. CEI…
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FDA Regulation: Harmful to Smokers’ Health?
Congress is on the verge of passing a bill that would subject tobacco products to FDA regulation. The FDA regulation bill would make it…
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Anti-AIDS Spending Backfires
A U.N. effort to reduce the spread of AIDS to children by encouraging HIV-positive mothers to use formula rather than breast feeding has backfired…
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FDA Authority: Less Is More
Our good friend (and adjunct fellow) Henry Miller of the Hoover Institute responds in the pages of Regulation to charges that the FDA…
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Worthy Pleasure Seekers of the World Unite
Today the Senate Finance Committee is considering the “Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Reauthorization Act of 2007,” which, according to James Thorner of…
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Nothing Sweet about It
"It’s an outrage!" That’s the usual cry of Washington politicians when they chastise the world outside their chambers for their profligate ways, which they…
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Issues in the News 1. HEALTH California officials issue a West Nile virus public health alert. CEI Expert Available to Comment:…
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Issues in the News 1. CONGRESS The House of Representatives votes to give more regulatory power to the Food…
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Issues in the News 1. ECONOMICS The federal budget deficit drops to $205 billion…
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Hanging Onto the Trash
One would think we were dealing with a major national security issue considering how worked up New York politicians get about garbage. But that's…
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1. CONGRESS House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Chairman John Dingell prepare for a showdown on energy policy. CEI Expert Available to…
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Mandatory Purchase
In a piece in Saturday's Washington Examiner, I examine the parallels between auto insurance and health insurance, and, for the most part, find that…
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Issues in the News 1. ENVIRONMENT Al Gore’s “Live Earth” concert series leaves many observers underwhelmed. CEI Expert Available to…
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The Road to Health Care Reform
When they buy automobile insurance, Americans enjoy a market that provides many choices, lots of competition, and, in most places, reasonable rates. Residents of…
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Issues in the News 1. Environment Al Gore’s “Live Earth” concert series will host a previously cancelled performance this…
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Could it happen here? Probably not.
Recent media reports indicate that some the leading suspects in the recently attempted terror attacks against the U.K. were doctors working for the…
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Sicko’s Sick Stunt
MTV film critic Kurt Loder takes apart Michael Moore’s Sicko. The entire review is well worth reading, but here’s a sample, Loder on Moore’s…
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Issues in the News 1. Health Michael Moore’s controversial documentary on health care in America, Sicko, opens nationwide.
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Bureaucrash Does Dallas (Morning News)
Congratulations to Jason and our friends at Americans for Prosperity and the Moving Picture Institute for their recent anti-Sicko demonstration here in DC. Photos…
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Issues in the News 1. Safety The Department of Homeland Security hosts a forum on the latest trends in…
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The Flexibility Solution
Full Document Available in PDF America has not done enough to protect the networks of…
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Issues in the News 1. Environment The Senate Environment & Public Works Committee holds a hearing on global warming.
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AMA wants investigation of store-based health clinics
Yesterday, the American Medical Association said it had adopted recommendations for state and federal agencies to investigate store-based health clinics. At its annual meeting,…
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Issues in the News 1. Legal Judge Roy Pearson loses the lawsuit in which he claimed $54 million in damages from…
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Charleston’s Uncommon Tragedy: Fires do less damage today than ever before
Nine firefighters perished as a terrible inferno swept through <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Charleston’s Sofa Super Store this past Monday…
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Bills on FDA Reform Could Mean Fewer Medicines
Contact: Christine Hall, 202.331.2258 Washington DC, June 21, 2007—The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today began mark-up on several bills on…
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Dying for FDA Reform
Full Document Available in PDF This year, Congress is considering a variety of legislative…
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Issues in the News 1. Congress Energy legislation appears to be stalling out in the Senate. CEI Expert Available…
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Michael Moore’s “Sicko” – Diagnosis: PWNED
Michael Moore’s new attack-umentary on the American health care system, Sicko, seems to be having viral problems of its own. A mysterious source has…
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Junk Science: Military Suicide Mystery
Researchers and the media did their best this week to scare military personnel and their families with the widely reported headline, “Military Service Doubles…
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Cooler Heads Digest
1. Global Warming in the News 2. CEI’s Insider Info 3. Issue of the Week: Price Gouging 4. Action Item: Join the…
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Al Gore: The Edge of Reason
Review: THE ASSAULT ON REASON by Al Gore, Penguin Press, $25.95, 320 pages Al Gore may be the most frustrated man in…
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Issues in the News 1.Legal The Supreme Court rules against Philip Morris as part of an on-going legal fight…
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Stubborn FDA harms arthritis sufferers
Helvetia, W.Va. – The Food And Drug Administration’s (FDA) safety alert for the popular diabetes drug Avandia has gotten headlines recently, but its…
