80 free market, conservative, and libertarian organizations and activists oppose President Trump’s recently signed “most favored nation” (MFN) executive order to impose foreign price controls on the medicines used by American seniors.
Trump’s executive order will tie the prices we pay for medicines in Medicare Part B and Part D to the prices in foreign countries, most of which have government-set prices.
Signatories of the coalition letter include representatives from prominent national organizations as well as almost 30 states.
President Trump has repeatedly stood strong against the left’s calls for socialized medicine, even promising in the 2020 State of the Union Address that “we will never let socialism destroy American healthcare.”
Unfortunately, an MFN policy would adopt these same socialist healthcare policies and threaten American medical innovation. As the letter notes:
“Adopting these price controls will slow medical innovation, threaten American jobs, and undermine criticism of single-payer systems. In addition, a United States embrace of price controls will make it immeasurably more difficult to get foreign countries to pay their own way in the development of new medicines.”
An MFN policy would also threaten our COVID-19 response and exacerbate foreign freeloading off of American innovation. As the letter notes:
“The U.S. is the best in the world when it comes to developing innovative, lifesaving and life preserving medicines. Because of this, the U.S. is leading the way when it comes to developing COVID-19 vaccines, with several promising candidates entering the final stages of testing and clinical trials.”
Rather than adopting price controls, the signatories urge President Trump to continue pushing policies that encourage American innovation like tax cuts and renegotiated trade deals:
“As President, you have championed vital changes in tax and regulatory policies that have allowed free market innovation to flourish. We believe a market-based approach like those that your administration has consistently supported in other policy areas will lead to economic growth and promising new treatments but adopting price controls through the MFN plan would undermine rather than build on those successes.”
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Signatories of the coalition letter:
Grover Norquist
President, Americans for Tax Reform
Brent Wm. Gardner
Chief Government Affairs Officer, Americans for Prosperity
Joel White
President, Council for Affordable Health Coverage
Grace Marie-Turner
President, Galen Institute (organization listed for affiliation purposes only)
Daniel Schneider
Executive Director, American Conservative Union
Lisa B. Nelson
CEO, ALEC
Adam Brandon
President, FreedomWorks
Pete Sepp
President, National Taxpayers Union
Phil Kerpen
President, American Commitment
Thomas Schatz
President, Citizens Against Government Waste
Karen Kerrigan
President & CEO, Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council
David Williams
President, Taxpayers Protection Alliance
Saulius “Saul” Anuzis & Jim Martin
President, 60 Plus Association
Founder/Chairman, 60 Plus Association
Marty Connors
Leader, Alabama Center-Right Coalition
Bethany Marcum
Executive Director, Alaska Policy Forum
Dee Stewart
President, Americans for a Balanced Budget
Richard Manning
President, Americans for Limited Government
Michael Bowman
President, ALEC Action
Kevin Waterman
Chair, Annapolis Center-Right Coalition Meeting (Maryland)
Robert Alt
President and CEO, The Buckeye Institute
Rabbi Aryeh Spero
President, Caucus for America
Ryan Ellis
President, Center for a Free Economy
Andrew F. Quinlan
President, Center for Freedom and Prosperity
Jeffrey Mazzella
President, Center for Individual Freedom
Ginevra Joyce-Myers
Executive Director, Center for Innovation and Free Enterprise
Peter Pitts
President, Center for Medicine in the Public Interest
John Hinderaker
President, Center of the American Experiment
Leo Knepper
CEO, Citizens Alliance of Pennsylvania
Donald Bryson
President & CEO, Civitas Institute
Regina Thomson
President, Colorado Issues Coalition
Gregory Conko
Senior Fellow, Competitive Enterprise Institute
James Edwards
Executive Director, Conservatives for Property Rights
Matthew Kandrach
President, Consumer Action for a Strong Economy
Fred Roeder
Health Economist/Managing Director, Consumer Choice Center
Yaël Ossowski
Deputy Director, Consumer Choice Center
Katie McAuliffe
Executive Director, Digital Liberty
Robert Roper
President, Ethan Allen Institute
Annette Meeks
CEO, Freedom Foundation of Minnesota
George Landrith
President, Frontiers of Freedom
Ray Chadwick
Chairman, Granite State Taxpayers
Naomi Lopez
Director of Healthcare Policy, Goldwater Institute
Mario H. Lopez
President, Hispanic Leadership Fund
Carrie Lukas
President, Independent Women’s Forum
Heather R. Higgins
CEO, Independent Women’s Voice
Andrew Langer
President, Institute for Liberty
Tom Giovanetti
President, Institute for Policy Innovation
Sal Nuzzo
Vice President of Policy, James Madison Institute
Amy Oliver Cooke
CEO, John Locke Foundation
Drew Cline
President, Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy
Seton Motley
President, Less Government
Jay Fisher
Immediate Past Chairman, Lisle Township Republican Organization
Doug McCullough
Director, Lone Star Policy Institute
Lindsay Killen
Vice President for Strategic Outreach, Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Brett Healy
President, The John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy
Matt Gagnon
President, Maine Policy Institute
Charles Sauer
President, Market Institute
Dee Hodges
President, Maryland Taxpayers Association, Inc
Gene Clem
Spokesman, Michigan Tea Party Alliance
Jameson Taylor, Ph.D.
Vice President for Policy, Mississippi Center for Public Policy
Tim Jones
Chair, Missouri Center-Right Coalition
Fmr. Speaker, Missouri House
David A. Ridenour
President, National Center for Public Policy Research
Everett Wilkinson
Chairman, National Liberty Federation
John Tsarpalas
President, Nevada Policy Research Institute
Scott Pullins
Founder, Ohio Taxpayers Association
Doug Kellogg
Executive Director, Ohioans for Tax Reform
Sally Pipes
President and CEO, Pacific Research Institute
Ellen Weaver
President & CEO, Palmetto Promise Institute
Daniel Erspamer
Chief Executive Officer, Pelican Institute for Public Policy
Ed Martin
President, Phyllis Schlafly Eagles
Lorenzo Montanari
Executive Director, Property Rights Alliance
Stone Washington
Member, Project 21
Paul J. Gessing
President, Rio Grande Foundation
Bette Grande
President & CEO, Roughrider Policy Center
James L. Setterlund
Executive Director, Shareholder Advocacy Forum
Paul E. Vallely, Major General, US Army (ret)
Chairman, Stand Up America US Foundation
Richard Watson
Chair, Tallahassee Center-Right Coalition
Sara Croom
Executive Director, Trade Alliance to Promote Prosperity
C. Preston Noell III
President, Tradition, Family, Property, Inc.
Lynn Taylor
President, Virginia Institute for Public Policy