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Who knows what your community’s health needs are better than you and your neighbors? Well, according to many state governments around the U.S., they know better than you do. And they’ll overreach to show it. In 1979, Georgia’s General Assembly established a Certificate of Need (CON) to prevent new health care facilities from being built […]
Reimagining Healthcare to Save Lives Lifting Barriers to Better Care COVID-19 exposed a tragic reality: America’s healthcare system – your healthcare system – is undermined by too much government bureaucracy and red tape that prevents doctors, nurses, and medical researchers from helping people. Fortunately, we have a solution, a Personal Option. A Personal Option is a commonsense […]
DENVER, CO — Today, AFP-CO launched NoMoreRateIncreases.com, a campaign targeting the Colorado Public Utilities Commission (PUC) and calling on Coloradans to tell the PUC to stop raising rates on utilities. Heating costs are top of mind for Coloradans this time of year and families across the state are feeling the financial pressure of rate hikes, […]
Americans for Prosperity-Florida State Director Skylar Zander | Tallahassee Democrat We all know that the creation of iPhones has transformed the world of communication and improved our daily lives. This is just one example of a free-market technological advancement that continues to radically improve our ability to connect. An opposite analogy, if you think about […]
Tallahassee, Fla. – Americans for Prosperity-Florida (AFP-FL) today applauded the House Choice & Innovation Subcommittee following its approval of HB 1 today. “All of Florida’s students and parents deserve an education system that works for them. Providing families with the freedom to choose the best educational path for their children will give Florida’s children a better start in […]
Salt Lake City, UT – Americans for Prosperity-UT (AFP-UT) today commended lawmakers for the passage of HB215, the Utah Fits All Scholarship bill, which expands educational freedom in the state by creating a scholarship program, similar to an ESA (Educational Savings Account) that gives parents and children more choice when it comes to their education. This […]
Updated on January 27, 2023 On January 26, the House of Representatives passed the Strategic Production Response Act. The SPRA would hold the current administration accountable for lowering the U.S. strategic oil reserves to their lowest level — roughly 380 million barrels — in almost 40 years. In fact, the administration has reduced the reserves […]
Tallahassee, Fla. — Americans for Prosperity-Florida State Director Skylar Zander released the following statement following Governor DeSantis’ announcement that he is prioritizing reforms that hold unions accountable. “We applaud Governor DeSantis for making it a priority of his administration to empower individuals over organizations when it comes to union membership in Florida. With his […]
Happy belated Martin Luther King, Jr., Day! There’s so much to celebrate about Dr. King. He was perhaps the most significant non-president in American history. His courage changed America and advanced the cause of justice, equality, and freedom for every American. But because of the means through which he brought about that change — peaceful […]
