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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The Internet as Medical Adviser?
While the future of health care is heatedly debated in this presidential election year, something less obvious, but possibly much more important, is occurring behind…
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Déjà vu Tobacco Lawsuit Seeks $280 Billion Tax
Contact: Christine Hall, 202.331.2258<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Washington, DC, September 20, 2004—As the U.S. Department of Justice…
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Taking the Scare Out of Biotech Crops
In the late 1990s, political scientist Gregory Conko had been studying food and pharmaceutical regulation as a fellow of the Competitive Enterprise Institute,…
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Soso Whaley Interviewed in Brazil
Soso Whaley interview in O Estado de Sao Paulo, August 20, 2004 Soso Whaley followed the same…
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Ratification without Representation?
Full Document Available in PDF In 2001, the Bush Administration signed the United Nations Environment…
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Ratification Without Representation: Making a Joke out of the Constitution
“Why don't we just give them ours?” Jay Leno asked last summer as the Bush administration was helping <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =…
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“Frankenfood Myth” Debunks Biotech Scare
Contact for Interviews: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Jody Clarke, 202.331.2252 <?xml:namespace prefix = st1…
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Nauseating Cases of Product Liability
Morning sickness –the nausea and vomiting that afflict more than half of pregnant women –can be debilitating. There once was…
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The Truth About Marcia Angell
I never knew my maternal grandparents. During the nineteen-teens, my maternal grandmother died of a wound infection following a routine gall-bladder operation. A…
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Fear Factor
Environmental activists seeking to halt the worldwide spread of the advanced technologies they fear see <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />China…
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Obesity: a Sign We’re Doing Things Right
Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson recently designated obesity a disease, with all the negative implications that entails. Our society, crippled, it seems,…
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Bookshelf: Fighting Disease Is Only Half the Battle
As a fresh-faced medical intern, a colleague of mine once greeted a new patient with a breezy, “So what’s your problem?” “Oh, just a touch…
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The Frankenfood Myth: How Protest and Politics Threaten the Biotech Revolution
Announcing a timely and incisive<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns =…
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California Wine vs. Two-Legged Pests
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />California is under attack by parasites, of both the six-legged and two-legged variety. The former are…
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Visions of “Ecodemics”
In Six modern plagues, veterinarian and journalist Mark Jerome Walters, like many modern-day greens, deems humankind the source of many of the world’s problems. He…
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CEI Welcomes Report on Biotech Food Safety
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” /> Contact for Interviews: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Richard Morrison,…
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DEBUNK THE JUNK – July 25, 2004
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> “What we did in making nutrition labeling mandatory did not help obesity.
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Scientists and Scholars Denounce Position of the Catholic Institute for International Relations on GM Crops
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Milan, Italy: July 17, 2004 — An international group of scientists and scholars released a statement…
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They’re Coming for Your Shrimp
H.L. Mencken famously defined Puritanism as "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." Yesterday’s puritans worried about their neighbors enjoying alcohol or gambling…
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Debunk the Junk: June 1, 2004
Debunk the Junk: <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />June 1, 2004<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> …
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EU Is out of Step over Regulation of Modified Products
Sir, The premise of Steven Druker’s rant that the US criticises Europe’s application of the precautionary principle yet uses it itself (“America’s hypocrisy over modified…
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Chemical Risk Expert Testifies Before Government Reform Committee
Contact for Interviews: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 …
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We eat only what we choose to
To answer John Gapper’s question (Who would be in Neville Isdell’s shoes?”) in his article “How to get fat on a healthy diet”…
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We Eat Only What We Choose To (Letter to the Editor)
To answer John Gapper’s question (“Who would be in Neville Isdell’s shoes?”) in his article “How to get fat on a healthy diet” (May 11),…
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Nobel Peace Laureate to Discuss Tools for Battling Hunger
Contact: Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 Washington, D.C. – On Tuesday, May 18th, Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Norman Borlaug will address a Newsmaker Breakfast sponsored…
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Crews Rejoins CEI as Vice President for Policy
Contact for Interviews: Richard Morrison, 202-331-2273 Washington, D.C., May 11, 2004—The Competitive Enterprise Institute is pleased to announce the return of Clyde Wayne Crews Jr.
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Sympathy for the Mosquito?
“Save Our Mosquitoes,” isn't a plea one expects to see these days with the mosquito-borne West Nile Virus killing hundreds and making thousands…
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Soso R. Whaley Featured in The American Spectator
Click here to read full story. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> <?xml:namespace prefix =…
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Enter and Win!
Name that film!<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> For a month, you’ve been reading about Soso’s…
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Media Conference Call, Wed., May 5
Contact: Jody Clarke, 202.331.2252<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Washington, DC, May 4, 2004—Her quest started…
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“I Love Humanity; It’s People I Can’t Stand”
This is part 2 of a two-part series. To read part 1, please click here.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />…
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Biotech’s Antagonists
This is part 1 of a two-part series. To read part 2, please click here.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />…
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Soso Whaley’s McDonald’s Diet Results!
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Soso Whaley and her doctor, Dr. Rayner Dickey, are proud to announce the results of her…
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DAILY DIARY – DEBUNK THE JUNK, APRIL 30, 2004
“I always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted – stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight…
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DAILY DIARY – DEBUNK THE JUNK, APRIL 23, 2004
“In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because…
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DAILY DIARY – DEBUNK THE JUNK, APRIL 29, 2004
“I’m on a seafood diet, I see food, I eat it.” – Dolly Parton<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />…
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Abusing Substance Abuse Data
I haven't covered the issue of alcohol for a while, but a recent set of headlines had a reek of moonshine about them.
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DAILY DIARY – DEBUNK THE JUNK, APRIL 28, 2004
“A month long diet at McDonalds nearly killed one filmmaker…..” – Channel 4 Evening News, <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns…
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DAILY DIARY – DEBUNK THE JUNK, APRIL 27, 2004
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> “The world faces some real problems, but those problems do not portend…
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DAILY DIARY – DEBUNK THE JUNK, APRIL 22, 2004
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> “Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do…
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DAILY DIARY – DEBUNK THE JUNK, APRIL 26, 2004
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> “Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it’s the only one…
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DAILY DIARY – DEBUNK THE JUNK, APRIL 25, 2004
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> “Clever liars give details, but the cleverest don’t.” – Anonymous …
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DAILY DIARY – DEBUNK THE JUNK, APRIL 24, 2004
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> “I have not been afraid of excess: Excess on occasion is exhilarating. …
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Broadcast Update on Issues in the News
Contact for Interviews: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 …
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DAILY DIARY – DEBUNK THE JUNK, APRIL 20, 2004
“There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval.” <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />…
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This Should Go over Like a Lead Balloon
Brewing in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Washington D.C. is a new public health scare that may soon reach beyond the beltway…
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Commentary: Europe’s Ban on GMOs Is Still Firmly In Place
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> There is an old saying among political veterans in <?xml:namespace prefix =…
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The Politics Behind Pesticides and the West Nile Virus
In a new study published by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, author Angela Logomasini exposes how environmental activists are opposing vital efforts to combat the deadly…
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Filmmaker Debunks “Super Size Me” Claim
Contact for Interviews: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Judy Kent, 202.331.2266…
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DAILY DIARY – DEBUNK THE JUNK, APRIL 16, 2004
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Receipt available as a pdf. “All substances are…
