healthcare

Op-ed Placement

The Promising Pathway Act: Giving Terminally Ill Patients a Chance To Live

BY Adam Brandon and Tarren Bragdon

Imagine hearing your mother has been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)—more commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Between 2011 and 2014, almost 25,000 people in the United States died from it. While the disease has been diagnosed for decades, there is no known cure. With that in mind, imagine that after the doctors provide the diagnosis, they explain that although there are promising treatments being developed in clinical trials, none are available because the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) burdensome and onerous review process prevents them from being used.

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06/15/2022

Blog

Support the Increasing Health Coverage through HRAs Act, H.R. 4123

BY Adam Brandon

On behalf of FreedomWorks’ activist community, I urge you to contact your representative and ask him or her to cosponsor the Increasing Health Coverage through HRAs Act, H.R. 4123, introduced by Rep. Dan Bishop (R-N.C.). This bill would codify the Trump administration’s 2019 HRA rule and empower employees to take greater ownership of their health coverage.

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06/25/2021

Blog

Support the Right to Test Act, H.R. 719 and S. 152

BY Adam Brandon

On behalf of FreedomWorks’ activist community, I urge you to contact your representative and senators and ask them to cosponsor the Right to Test Act, H.R. 719 and S. 152. Introduced by Rep. Patrick McHenry and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), the Right to Test Act would simply allow states to approve COVID-19 testing to be used in their state without the interference of the Federal Drug Administration (FDA).

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03/16/2021

Blog

FreedomWorks Leads Letter to Oklahoma Senate Opposing Prescription Drug Price Controls in SB 734

BY Sarah Anderson

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 prescription drugs

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03/09/2021

Blog

Florida Looking to Advance Healthcare Freedom and Educational Choice

BY Sarah Anderson

THIS LEGISLATIVE SESSION, which kicks off in Florida in less than two weeks, legislators should, and in areas are poised to, continue their state's leadership on principles of free markets in critical areas.

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02/19/2021

Op-ed Placement

Health Savings Accounts Present a Working Free Market Alternative to Obamacare

BY Stephen Moore

The Senate fight over President Trump’s pick for the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, became a morality play about Obamacare.

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11/02/2020

Press Release

FreedomWorks Statement in Response to Joe Biden’s Selection of Sen. Kamala Harris as Running Mate

BY Peter Vicenzi

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In response to presumptive Democratic Presidential Nominee Joe Biden’s choice of Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) as his running mate for the 2020 Presidential Election, Adam Brandon, FreedomWorks President, commented:

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08/11/2020

Press Release

FreedomWorks Urges Congress to Pass the Pandemic Healthcare Access Act, H.R. 6338 and S. 3546

BY Peter Vicenzi

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- As part of our ongoing effort to advance healthcare freedom, Sarah Anderson, FreedomWorks’ Director of Policy, hosted a series of online interviews with elected officials and health policy experts on the need for Congress to expand health savings accounts. Links to the online interviews with H.R. 6338 sponsors Reps. Ted Budd (R-N.C.) and Chip Roy (R-Texas) and Americans for Prosperity’s Dean Clancy are here and here.

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08/11/2020