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Letter co-signed by eighteen organizations calls on lawmakers to assume their constitutional rulemaking authorities by enacting a series of targeted reforms and preventing the outgoing administration from abusing its power before it leaves office. Washington, D.C. – Today, Americans for Prosperity, the nation’s premiere grassroots organization that fights for prosperity through freedom and opportunity, sent […]

On Tuesday, the House Financial Services Committee held a hearing entitled “Mission Critical: Restoring National Security as the Focus of the Defense Production Act Reauthorization.” The hearing was the House’s first on the Defense Production Act (DPA) in over a decade. The DPA will lapse in 2025 unless reauthorized. Committee Chairman Blaine Luetkemeyer entered a […]

Congress held hearings this week to look at reducing health care costs through greater price transparency and more competition.

In letter to Congress, group promotes site neutral payments as a way to reduce costs for patients and discourage hospital consolidation.
Arlington, Va. – In a May 13 column for Newsmax, healthcare policy guru Sally Pipes urged lawmakers to embrace AFP’s personal option plan. Pipes noted that Republican policymakers, in particular, have an opportunity to lead on healthcare reform and offer a smarter alternative to the single payer proposals being offered by Sen. Bernie Sanders and […]

Americans for Prosperity is urging congressional leaders to extend a law that has allowed more Americans to access health care via telehealth.

Putting Washington in charge of drug prices would stifle innovation and lead to fewer life-saving cures.

The new six-figure spot from the grassroots organization highlights how Congress’s price control plan will lead to as many as 342 fewer new cures.

“America – we lead the world in access to new drugs and cures for cancer, AIDS and COVID. But some in Washington would put that at risk with a 95 percent drug tax and a loss of control over the medicines you need.”