ICYMI: How Certificate of Need Laws CON Rural Patients Out of Healthcare
Jun 14, 2024

Writing in STAT News today, Americans for Prosperity’s Sofia Hamilton and Americans for Prosperity Foundation’s Thomas Kimbrell explain how certificate of need laws (CON) deny access to quality and affordable health care – especially to people in rural areas. “States with these laws have 30% fewer rural hospitals and 13% fewer rural ambulatory surgical centers,” […]

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Summer news round-up: The brave WWII heroes, the Tiananmen legacy, and SCOTUS decisions
Jun 13, 2024

It’s summer! If you’re like me that means vacations, kids home from school, and general business that somehow surprises me every year. So I’ll keep this newsletter relatively short and focus on some recent anniversaries and developments in civil liberties. Commemorating the battle that liberated Europe We recently passed the anniversaries of two key events […]

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Meet Ashley: Mom, education champion, and AFP legend
Jun 12, 2024

Wake up at 6:00 a.m. Enjoy a cup of coffee in your (for now) quiet living room; you have a long day ahead. It’s now 7:00 a.m., time to start your day. On your to-do list: tend to the family business, do laundry, cook breakfast, homeschool your kids, and… be one of the most effective […]

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Release Reserves? No, permitting reform is the key to bring gas prices down
Jun 11, 2024

In May, President Biden announced the release of million barrels from the Northeast Gasoline Supply Reserve to decrease gas prices ahead of the 4th of July. This decision is not only unstrategic but unnecessary. America already has the resources and technology needed to get supply up and gas prices down. We do not need to risk our […]

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Bidenomics: the endless reserve of bad economic thinking
Jun 11, 2024

President Biden is selling the future prosperity of America for his political present. On May 22, Biden announced the release of a million barrels from our Northeast Gasoline Supply Reserve just in time for the 4th of July. A transparent political ploy from the President to get gas prices down and get a small bump for his abysmal […]

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AFP Puts Biden Allies on Notice: You Can’t Hide From the Failures of Bidenomics
Jun 6, 2024

Lawmakers Can Scrap the Bidenomics Slogan, But They Can’t Hide From Their Voting Record Washington, DC – As ‘Bidenomics’ continues to fall flat with the public, Americans for Prosperity has launched a new round of ads telling President Biden and his allies in Congress that they can run from the ‘Bidenomics’ slogan, but they can’t […]

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Medicaid’s “340B” drug program is exploding — and driving up insurance costs
Jun 6, 2024

This month, the House Energy and Commerce Committee launched an investigation into an obscure federal drug subsidy program known as “Medicaid 340B.” That’s good news for patients and taxpayers because 340B is out of control — and driving up health care costs for American families. Created in 1992 to help low-income and uninsured patients obtain […]

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Memorial Day reflections: What we owe to those who “gave their lives that that nation might live”
May 30, 2024

There’s a lot to love about America. Even if the list was only college football and barbecue – that’s a pretty solid list. But fortunately, it’s longer than that. We’re also stewards of an experiment in constitutional self-governance for which many of our fellow Americans have sacrificed everything. I recently volunteered to chaperone my child’s […]

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The Congressional Budget Office provides great support to Congress, but it can get even better. Here are five ways CBO can better support fiscal responsibility.
Meet the Bidenomics Five: The senators voting for more inflation
May 28, 2024

Bidenomics might bear President Biden’s name, but he’s not the only Washington politician responsible for his administration’s disastrous economic policies. The president cannot act on a whim; the Constitution —thankfully— forbids it To pass his $5.5 trillion (about $17,000 per person in the US) in new spending, Biden needed Congressional support, and, unfortunately for Americans, […]

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