FreedomWorks Leads Letter to Oklahoma Senate Opposing Prescription Drug Price Controls in SB 734
Today, FreedomWorks President Adam Brandon sent a letter alongside 190 of our Oklahoma activists to the Oklahoma State Senate in strong opposition to Senate Bill 734: An Act relating to…
FreedomWorks Launches International Reference Pricing Scorecard
FreedomWorks Foundation’s Regulatory Action Center (RAC) has launched a scorecard for the 16 nations to which the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) wants to tie the United…
Price Controls Aren’t Solutions
Prices for prescription drugs in the U.S. are far too high. There is no denying this sad reality. According to an analysis done by the House Ways and Means Committee,…
Removing the Last Remnants of the Free Market from Medicare
Created in 2003 as part of the Medicare Modernization Act, Part D of Medicare was designed to provide financial aid for prescription medication purchases of Medicare beneficiaries. As of 2018,…
FreedomWorks’ Dumpster Fire of the Month for June 2019: The Transparent Drug Pricing Act, S. 977
FreedomWorks’ activist-chosen dumpster fire of the month for May 2019 is the Transparent Drug Pricing Act, S. 977. Introduced by Rep. Rick Scott (R-FL), this is yet another proposal targeted…
By Any Other Name: Price Controls are Price Controls
Many conservatives and right-of-center political analysts are rightly upset about Health and Human Service Secretary Alex Azar’s proposal to tie drug prices in the United States to those in foreign…
FreedomWorks’ Bill of the Month for June 2019: The Prescription Drug Price Transparency Act, H.R. 1035
FreedomWorks is proud to announce that our bill of the month for June 2019 is the Prescription Drug Price Transparency Act, H.R. 1035, sponsored by Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.).
Drug Price Controls are Dangerous to Your Health
Almost all Americans want lower price prescription drugs, and it is indefensible that American consumers often have to pay higher prices than customers in developed nations around the world. This…
The Illegal Pricing Index
The small area of sanity in our healthcare sector is now under threat, however. A new proposal by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), referred to…
Poison Pill: Importing Foreign Drug Price Controls
In response to recent regulatory and legislative proposals to benchmark US prescription drug prices to prices found in other countries, we looked at the underlying legal and economic issues. As…