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
Binding Arbitration Is Government Price Controls Hiding in Plain Sight
Prescription drug affordability might just be the last truly bipartisan issue in Washington. Read More
On High Drug Prices, Republicans Shouldn’t Take the Arbitration Bait
With bipartisan consensus that drug prices are too high, the search is on for so-called “middle-of-the-road” policies that have a shot at becoming law. Thus far, this has only resulted… Read More
California’s Medicaid for All
Milton Friedman once said you can’t have open borders and a welfare state. He may have found an ally in California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is in a standoff with… Read More
Medicare proposal threatens cures
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is considering a monumental change to Medicare — and believes that President Donald Trump might support her plan. Her big idea? Binding arbitration — a… Read More
Binding arbitration policy would cause drug development pipeline to run dry
Pharmaceutical giant Biogen recently pulled the plug on its experimental Alzheimer’s drug after disappointing clinical trial results. Read More
CCAGW Leads Coalition to Oppose Using Binding Arbitration to Lower Medicare Drug Prices
On behalf of the millions of members and supporters of our respective organizations, we are writing in opposition to the use of binding arbitration to lower drug prices in Medicare… Read More
The Health 202: Large employers don’t want Medicare-for-all
Medicare-for-all advocates argue enacting their plan would lift a heavy burden off employers to provide their workers with health-care coverage, which is the way 180 million Americans get their insurance. But… Read More