Jeffrey A. Singer On May 13, the Food and Drug Administration announced plans to pull fluoride supplements, such as tablets and drops, off the market. FDA Commissioner Marty Makary stated…
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Chris Edwards America is facing an unprecedented debt and spending crisis … our current fiscal path is unsustainable and dangerous, jeopardizing our nation’s economic growth, stability and the security of…
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Neal McCluskey A $5 billion scholarship tax credit is a part of the budget reconciliation bill just introduced in Congress. As a member of the Educational Freedom Supporters of America…
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Alex Nowrasteh The first group of Afrikaners from South Africa to arrive for resettlement listen to remarks from US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau and US Deputy Secretary of…
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Dominik Lett Medicaid, a joint state and federal medical care program, already costs more than national defense. And despite $1.1 trillion in improper payments over the past decade, Congress is…
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Chris Edwards On May 11, 60 Minutes examined the huge fraud problem in federal spending programs. The piece stressed the growing losses from large-scale looting of benefit and subsidy programs…
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Colin Grabow One hopeful theory behind the Trump administration’s “Liberation Day” tariff increases was that they were a negotiating tool to ultimately produce a more open trade environment. The tariffs…
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Michael F. Cannon I’m usually the guy reminding everybody, “It is not a ‘price control’ when the government reduces the prices [it] pays for drugs.” I expected that I would…
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Walter Olson I had missed the story from two weeks ago about what happened after (apparent) agents of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), one wearing a balaclava to…
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No, It’s Not Price Controls: Trump’s Executive Order to Reduce the Prices Medicare Pays for Medicines
Michael F. Cannon Government should not purchase medicines for civilians. Period. The US Medicare and Medicaid programs illustrate why. Medicare pays significantly higher prices for medicines than other government programs.…