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HEALTHCARE POLICY
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Recent Healthcare Policy News
Conservative Groups Push Back Against Big Government Collusion with Non-Profit Hospital Networks
The following letter (signed by over 40 conservative groups including the Center for a Free Economy, Americans for Tax Reform, National...
Jul 232 min read
Congressional Democrats Should Stop Lying About Medicaid
Congressional Democrats should stop lying about Medicaid.
May 52 min read
Congress Must Investigate California's Abuse of Medicaid Reimbursements
Dear Chairman Guthrie, Chairman Carter, Chairwoman Kiggans: In the wake of President Donald Trump’s sweeping mandate to increase...
Mar 43 min read
The Center for a Free Economy Urges Congress to Investigate California’s Abuse of Federal Medicaid Intergovernmental Transfers from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
WASHINGTON, March 4, 2025 –The Center for a Free Economy today sent a letter to Representatives Brett Guthrie, Chairman of House Energy...
Mar 42 min read
80 Conservative Groups Unite in Opposition to 95% Tax on Prescription Medicines
Ryan Ellis 80 national and state conservative organizations today came together in opposition to a proposed 95 percent excise tax on...
Jun 7, 20221 min read
CFE Launches Video Series "So Here's The Good News"
On June 9, Center for a Free Economy (CFE) launched So Here’s the Good News , a video series designed to simplify tax policy with real...
Jun 7, 20211 min read
CFE President Ryan Ellis Featured on The Larry O’Connor Show
On May 14, CFE President Ryan Ellis was featured on The Larry O’Connor Show as a kick-off for Tax Day 2021. The two started by discussing...
May 17, 20211 min read
Coalition Letter Opposes H.R.3 to Protect American Patients
Conservative leaders and free market advocates representing associations across the country sent a letter to Leader Schumer, Speaker...
May 17, 20211 min read
86% of Seniors want Rebate Reform According to Polling by CFE
The Center for a Free Economy commissioned a poll by McLaughlin Associates of 1000 likely voters over the age of 65. We found that 86...
Jul 24, 20201 min read
Three simple rules for Congress in the new COVID-19 relief bill
By: Ryan Ellis Congress is usually not very good at basic lessons of economics. In fact, simple arithmetic is usually challenging for...
Jun 21, 20204 min read
Don’t let private health insurance be a coronavirus victim
By: Ryan Ellis No one will know until final reports are in, but our best guess at the moment is that about 36 million people have lost...
May 24, 20204 min read
Don’t bail out Big Insurance in coronavirus legislation
By: Ryan Ellis Millions of people have found a simultaneously grim yet welcome surprise in their mailboxes of late: rebate checks from...
May 10, 20204 min read
Coalition Letter Opposing Denial Of Intellectual Property Rights Of COVID-Fighting Innovators
By: Carrie Lukas May 7, 2020 Dear Member of Congress: We write to express strong opposition to the idea several Democratic lawmakers...
May 6, 20205 min read
Coalition Urges Transparency To Address Surprise Medical Billing
By: Gracie-Marie Turner Surprise medical bills and drug costs are dominating the health care agenda on Capitol Hill, but it is a huge...
Feb 14, 20203 min read
Trump’s socialist drug-pricing proposal remains on ice. It should stay that way
By: Ryan Ellis When President Trump delivered his annual State of the Union address in early February, there was a universal expectation...
Feb 11, 20204 min read
Conservative Groups Urge Trump and Congress Not to Adopt Price Controls to Reform Healthcare
The Center for a Free Economy, along with 75 other conservative groups, this week sent a letter to Congressional Republicans urging them...
Feb 4, 20201 min read
75 Conservative Groups Urge Congress Not to Adopt Price Controls to Reform Healthcare
The Center for a Free Economy, along with 75 other conservative groups, this week sent a letter to Congressional Republicans urging them...
Dec 2, 20191 min read
House conservatives offer seniors better healthcare options with nothing taken away
By: Ryan Ellis An emerging axiom in politics is that the political party that is trying to take healthcare choices away from people...
Nov 19, 20194 min read
A healthcare tax cut for seniors every politician should love
By: Ryan Ellis When it comes to any issue, especially healthcare, there is very little bipartisan commonsense cooperation in Washington...
Sep 9, 20193 min read
3 easy ways for conservatives to improve health savings accounts
By Ryan Ellis The White House this week is hosting a listening session with conservatives on “Building Great Healthcare in America.”...
Jul 10, 20195 min read
Some conservatives complain, but Brett Kavanaugh was right about Obamacare and taxes
By Ryan Ellis Ever since his name was floated as the front-runner for nomination to the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh’s ample body of...
Jul 17, 20184 min read
HSA changes will ease Obamacare’s sticker shock
By: Ryan Ellis Congressional Democrats desperately want to blame Republicans for spiraling health insurance premium increases in the...
Jul 12, 20183 min read
Individual Mandate Repeal Is a Middle Class Tax Cut
By Ryan Ellis The Senate Finance Committee announced today that it would add to the Senate tax reform bill a zeroing out of Obamacare’s...
Nov 16, 20173 min read
New Senate Healthcare Bill Slams Small Business Owners And Savers
By Ryan Ellis Senate Republicans today released version 2.0 of their Obamacare “repeal and replace” bill, the Better Care Reconciliation...
Jul 12, 20174 min read
Moderate GOP Senators Threaten To Kill Capital Gains Tax Cut In Healthcare Bill
By Ryan Ellis There has been a lot of loose talk recently both in the conservative healthcare policy community and in the GOP Senate...
Jun 28, 20173 min read
Senate Obamacare Repeal And Replace Bill Cuts Taxes By $700 Billion
By Ryan Ellis The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) today released their score of the “Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017” (BCRA) ....
Jun 25, 20173 min read
Senate GOP Healthcare Tax Credit Must Avoid Obamacare’s Old Traps
By Ryan Ellis This week, the Senate GOP is reportedly putting pen to paper on their version of “repeal and replace” of Obamacare. One of...
Jun 5, 20176 min read
Obamacare Repeal Sweetened to Include Retroactive Capital Gains Tax Cut
By Ryan Ellis Big news tonight broken by Jennifer Haberkorn, Rachael Bade, and Josh Dawsey of Politico . Over the weekend, the House...
May 20, 20172 min read
Obamacare Repeal and Replace Bill Cuts Taxes by Nearly $1 Trillion
By Ryan Ellis The official score of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) was released today by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)....
May 12, 20172 min read
Tax Relief In Obamacare Repeal Threatened By Elizabeth Warren Power Grab
By Ryan Ellis One of the best conservative elements of Obamacare repeal in general and the House-passed “American Health Care Act” in...
May 9, 20173 min read
Obamacare Repeal’s Tax Credit Is Actually School Vouchers for Health Care
By Ryan Ellis One of the most controversial provisions (for conservatives) of the American Health Care Act (aka Obamacare repeal and...
May 9, 20172 min read
Senate Should Not Leave Taxpayers Behind In Obamacare Repeal
By Ryan Ellis Where’s Jack Kemp when you need him? Heck, for that matter where is Bill Roth or Phil Gramm? The biggest tax cut the U.S....
May 9, 20174 min read
Obamacare Repeal Bill Abolishes Tax Hikes, Expands HSAs, Creates New Health Insurance Tax Credit
By Ryan Ellis The House Ways and Means Committee just released their half of the Obamacare “repeal and replace” bill . They are in...
Mar 7, 20174 min read
Obamacare Repeal And Replace Is A Tax Cut Getting Bigger All The Time
By Ryan Ellis Breathless press accounts in Washington, D.C. recently would leave one believing that Obamacare “repeal and replace” is...
Feb 8, 20174 min read
Congress Needs To Pass Obamacare Repeal Resolution For Sake Of Taxpayers
By Ryan Ellis This week, the U.S. Senate and then the U.S. House of Representatives will consider a budget resolution for FY 2017 . It...
Jan 10, 20172 min read
Health Savings Account Expansions To Pass U.S. House Overwhelmingly
By Ryan Ellis Today, the U.S. House of Representatives will pass sweeping expansions of health savings accounts (HSAs) and bring back the...
Jun 20, 20162 min read
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