Certificate-of-need (CON) laws result in fewer hospitals, fewer service providers, and fewer choices for consumers, then would occur in a free-market.
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Fixing Airport Security Screening
Congress should hand over TSA’s screening operations to the nation’s airports, which could then contract them to expert private security firms.
US Shipbuilding and the Jones Act
US-built ships cost approximately five times as much as those constructed in South Korea.
FCC Threats and the Fog of War
The Government Cannot Be the Arbiter of Truth.
Europe Increases Its Assault on Free Expression
…and American Policymakers Follow Along.
Jones Act Undermines U.S. National Security & Economy in Both War and Peace
If the Jones Act must be suspended to address national security emergencies, why do we keep it in place during times of peace? Why keep it around at all?
The Latest AI Bill’s Five Major Flaws
AI bill proposal represents a dramatically different approach to President Trump’s vision that would heavily regulate the industry, hinder entrepreneurship, and restrict speech.
How Congress Can Fix the Debt Crisis (Before It’s Too Late)
By 2036, interest costs, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are projected to consume 100 percent of federal revenues.
Ten Commandments Ruling Underscores That Progressives Need School Choice
While most people probably think of school choice as driven by conservatives who want education different from “woke” public schools, progressives need choice, too.
“Ghost Student” Fraud, and Why Federal Student Aid Must Go
ABC News reported that “in California alone, nearly a third of all community college applicants in 2024 were identified as fraudulent.”
Victory for Choice: Idaho Parental Choice Tax Credit Upheld
Last September, the Idaho teachers’ unions and other opponents of education choice filed a lawsuit to halt the tax credit program.
DHS Administrative Warrants, ICE Immigration Arrests, and the Fourth Amendment
Can executive officials authorize themselves to enter a home? Or must they obtain a warrant from a judicial officer?
Decentralizing Public Health: Institutional Monopolies Are Fraying
It is ironic that the Trump administration, rightly, objects to the WHO’s mission creep and politicization but fails to see the same problem with the CDC in its own backyard.
Make Health Care More Affordable by Correcting Government-Created Distortions
What follows is a menu of health care, welfare, and related tax changes that would reduce spending and deficits and show that Republicans are serious about restraining federal spending, reining in welfare abuse, and improving health care affordability by removing govern…
Put More Drugs Over the Counter
If the president and Congress follow through on the promise to shift more prescription drugs to pharmacies’ over-the-counter sections, they will make medicines cheaper and more accessible—but, more importantly, they will return a measure of control over health care …
Medical Guidance Shouldn’t Come From Washington
If there’s a silver lining, it’s that controversies like this may finally encourage clinicians, researchers, and patients to rely less on federal pronouncements and more on diverse, independent medical expertise.
Breaking the Government’s Grip on Medical Debate
The federal government should leave medical and scientific debates to scientists and clinicians.
Medicare Spending is the Largest Driver of the US Debt Crisis
Why We Can’t Grow Our Way Out of the Medicare-Driven Debt Crisis.
Venezuela—Indictments, Invasions, and the Constitution’s Crumbling Guardrails
Article I commits to Congress—not the president—the power to decide when the United States will initiate hostilities against foreign sovereigns.
A Cascade of Fraud Scandals in Minnesota
What do all the Minnesota programs in the news have in common? They are all mainly funded by the federal government and administered by the state.
Hong Kong Convicts Freedom Fighter Jimmy Lai
The sham trial and conviction confirm Hong Kong’s tragic descent into tyranny.
The Bill of Rights at 234 Years Old
Anti-Federalists, who feared a powerful central government, demanded greater assurances.
End Emergency Tariffs
Trade policy, with all its consequences, belongs within the limits Congress established, not at the discretion of one officeholder.
Six Reasons to Not Extend the Enhanced Obamacare Subsidies
Biden’s pandemic-era Obamacare premium subsidies were sold as temporary relief but have instead produced fraud, phantom enrollees, and subsidies for wealthy taxpayers who don’t need them.
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