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Speaker Pelosi’s Drug Pricing Proposal is Here – It’s Not Good
All summer, Washington, D.C. has been waiting to see what Speaker Pelosi’s top aide Wendell Primus and staff would produce in the way of a drug pricing bill. It has… Read More
Open Letter to Lawmakers Urging Rejection of Draft Pelosi Prescription Drug Plan
Dear Representatives and Senators: On behalf of National Taxpayers Union (NTU), I write to express our significant concerns with the draft version of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s prescription drug plan, H.R. Read More
Pelosi Drug Plan Will Destroy U.S. Healthcare System
According to a leaked draft, House Democrats will propose drug pricing legislation that imposes broad government price controls, imports foreign pricing, and imposes on a new tax on manufacturers. Read More
Coalition Against Socialized Medicine Statement on Nancy Pelosi’s Drug Pricing Legislation
ALEXANDRIA, VA,September 10, 2019 – The Coalition Against Socialized Medicine (CASM), a broad coalition of leading conservative and free-market groups such as the American Conservative Union, Heritage Action, FreedomWorks,… Read More
Why Are Republicans Caving to Socialist Price-Setters?
If you look around, it’s hard not to conclude that we are in an especially critical political moment. The Democrats, half driven to madness by anti-Trump rage and freed to state their… Read More
What Medicare for All would mean for the 60 million people already on Medicare
Many Democrats running for the 2020 presidential nomination want to get more people insured by broadening Medicare to cover all Americans. Read More
Progressives Rip Rahm Emanuel After Former Obama Chief Of Staff Calls Medicare For All An ‘Untenable Position’
Former Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel called the concept of Medicare for All, embraced by a majority of Democratic 2020 presidential candidates, an “untenable position” during a “This Week… Read More
Sally Pipes: Bernie Sanders’ ‘Medicare-for-all’ means worse health insurance at higher cost for most Americans
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said this week that union workers would have a “hard time” supporting a “Medicare-for-all” plan, unless it carved out space for union-negotiated health plans. Read More
Why price controls on Medicare Part D are a bad prescription
Policymakers should focus on market-oriented solutions like the administration’s rebate proposal… Read More
The Costs of Medicare for All Are Rising Already
After my study of the costs of Medicare for All (M4A) was published last July, a fierce debate erupted over whether M4A, while dramatically increasing the costs borne by federal taxpayers,… Read More