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Medicaid

340B, Corporate Welfare, General Waste, Government Waste, Healthcare, Medicaid

Louisiana Senator Cassidy Leads Effort to Reform Federal Drug Pricing Program

October 7, 2025 Alec Mena

The establishment of well-intentioned programs that fail to achieve their objectives and waste taxpayer dollars is an unfortunately frequent occurrence in the federal government.  A prominent example of such an outcome is the 340B program, created by Section 340B of the Public Health Service Act of 1992, which requires pharmaceutical manufacturers participating in Medicaid to […]

340B, Biopharmaceuticals, General Waste, Healthcare, Medicaid, Medicare, Pharmaceuticals

President Trump Can Cut Wasteful Spending to Reduce Drug Prices and Healthcare Costs

October 1, 2025 Eric Maus

President Trump has made lowering drug prices and reducing healthcare costs for Americans a top priority of his second term, along with encouraging more biopharmaceutical investment and innovation in the U.S.  Citizens Against Government Waste suggests that he can achieve both objectives without imposing price controls, which includes Most Favored Nation (MFN) polices, reforming the […]

Big Government, Biopharmaceuticals, CMS, General Waste, Healthcare, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicare/aid

The Human Cost of Pharmaceutical Price Controls is Too High

July 23, 2022 Christina Smith

Price controls will result in the loss of life due to a lack of future research and development. 

Budget, CMS, General Waste, Healthcare, Medicaid, Medicare/aid, Pharmaceuticals, Taxes

The Resurgence of the Build Back Better Act is Inevitable

January 11, 2022 Christina Smith

The BBBA is more big government socialism, with a price tag of $4.9 trillion over 10 years.

Price Controls Will Create an Invisible Graveyard of Americans
Big Government, Biopharmaceuticals, CMS, General Waste, Healthcare, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicare/aid, Pharmaceuticals

Price Controls Will Create an Invisible Graveyard of Americans

December 18, 2021 Christina Smith

The Build Back Better Act will cost lives by devastating the development of future cures.

Healthcare, Big Government, Biopharmaceuticals, General Waste, Intellectual Property, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicare/aid, Property Rights

Sen. Elizabeth Warren Offers More Dangerous Healthcare Ideas

January 11, 2020 Elizabeth Wright

Essentially it is Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) socialistic drug discount plan, H.R. 3, on steroids.

Healthcare, Biopharmaceuticals, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicare/aid, Pharmaceuticals

CBO Releases the “Savings” Expected from Speaker Pelosi’s Drug Pricing Bill

December 7, 2019 Elizabeth Wright

H.R. 3 exerts so much government authority over the pharmaceutical industry.

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