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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Rescheduling marijuana to a less restrictive category will benefit liberty and public health
President Trump signed an executive order today intended to fast track the rescheduling of cannabis from a Schedule I substance, the same as heroin,…
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CEI Study: Government laws against pharmacy ownership would increase costs, restrict access for consumers
Innovation is reshaping how Americans get their prescription medications. Whether picking up medications in person, ordering online, or getting same-day delivery from services like Capsule,…
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A Free Market is the Best Medicine
Introduction The pharmaceutical supply market is seeing extraordinarily high levels of innovation and consumer-benefiting evolution. The combination of a competitive market for generic drugs, rapid…
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Hormone Replacement Therapy Truth: It’s Not All Bad
Hormone Replacement Therapy has been all over the news since a recent trial revealed that HRT comes with some significant health risks. The trial,…
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EU Ratifies Biosafety Protocol
The European Union took yet another step away from the rational regulation of genetically modified crop plants and foods in late June, when it…
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Science vs. Presumption In Assessing Risk
Full Chapter Available in PDF Format On September 22, 2000, California Governor Gray Davis signed into…
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European move will stifle GMOs
Regulatory officials in the European Union seem to be ignorant of the Rule of Holes: When you're in a hole, stop digging. Repeated analyzes…
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Blessed Are The Poor With Spirit
This year's UN-sponsored World Food Summit just concluded with a grim reminder that the goal of cutting world hunger in half by 2015 set six…
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Biotech Critics Find A Little Goes A Long Way
In the fictional world of James Bond, the criminal group SPECTRE made a big business out of misusing technology to disrupt commerce, make money, and…