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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FDA commissioner resignation opens opportunity for refocus on science over politics
After a somewhat tumultuous tenure, FDA commissioner Marty Makary is stepping down. While Dr. Makary made his mission to accelerate drug approval and bring a…
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Don’t hinder biosimilar development
In its most recent legislative session, the Florida legislature considered precluding pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) from holding an investment interest in biosimilar manufacturing. That…
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The unseen costs of banning PBM-owned pharmacies in Tennessee
Tennessee lawmakers recently passed the FAIR Rx Act, which would bar companies from owning pharmacies while also operating a pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) and…
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Trashing Free Trade: The Basel Convention’s Impact on International Commerce
Trashing Free Trade: The Basel Convention’s Impact on International Commerce by James M. Sheehan With the establishment of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995,…
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Cardiac and Cancer Specialists on the Need for FDA Reform
Two National Polls Debunk The Notion That FDA Doesn't Need Fixing…
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Listen to CEI’s Radio and TV ads on Drug Lag–the delayed availability of new therapies due to FDA regulation
CEI’s radio ad on FDA’s drug approval system, Ocean Storm, is available at: http://cei.org/sites/default/files/CEI_Radio_Storm.mp3 CEI’s television ad is available at:…
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Breaking The FDA’s Drug Approval Monopoly:
Executive Summary The Food and Drug Administration’s monopoly over approving new medical therapies is premised on the idea that information markets fail. In…
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Nailed by FDA
I started 1996 with two new experiences. I had a close-up photograph taken of my big toe, and I had my first personal run-in with…
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Rachel Was Wrong
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring ushered in an era of national concern over the potential effects of synthetic chemicals. Published in 1962, Carson's book suggested that…