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Famed Chicago School economist Milton Friedman had many strong opinions over the course of his lifetime. Many of those shaped the way we look at the world and the way we look at the economy. However, Friedman also dedicated a good amount of his time to criticizing government health policy, particularly the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

There has been some recent uproar over a regulation proposed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services designed to strengthen Medicaid, the government program that provides health insurance coverage for individuals below certain income levels. The regulation has sparked a curious bipartisan backlash from Capitol Hill and from state governments.

FreedomWorks Foundation's Regulatory Action Center (RAC) submitted formal comments to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on their proposal regarding organ donation. This rule would create metrics by which organ procurement organizations (OPO) will be guided. As it stands now, there has been enormous amounts of waste, fraud, and abuse in this space and thousands have died as a result.

In today’s politically charged climate, it often seems that politicians aren’t taken seriously unless they spuriously claim that “people will die” if a certain course of action is or is not taken. The rhetoric has been elevated to such a point that only the threat of life or death seems to get the attention of the masses, regardless of whether or not the claim is true. That’s a shame, because an issue has finally come along that does have grave consequences for thousands of Americans.

Co-authored by Luke Hogg, the program coordinator for FreedomWorks Foundation.

If we have learned one thing since January 20, 2017, it is that congressional Democrats will tie themselves into knots to oppose President Trump. We’ve also learned that the President’s opponents bristle at his self-proclaimed “America First” agenda. These trends have once again reared their ugly heads when it comes to the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).