A new study estimates that by restricting access to services, certificate-of-need laws increase the number of heart-attack deaths by as much as 10%.
A recent academic study also found that nursing homes in places subject to certificate-of-need laws had higher incidence of COVID-19 than in places where providers are free to compete.
Instead of duking it out for customers, two regional health care giants will vie for a government permission slip.
In North Carolina, we make it far too difficult for new providers to enter the marketplace. We squash competition and innovation. As a result, we make health-care costs unnecessarily high.
Planning is essential in a capital-intensive field such as health care. But it shouldn’t be centralized in a state agency and coupled with the power to shove people around.
I have no confidence in the ability of lawmakers or regulators to keep their political preferences out of any oversight role they might assume in the content of online media.
Quite apart from the salutary effects of fitting individual students to the schools best suited for them, competition improves the quality of education provided.
For decades, owners of homes and cars had valuable capital sitting unused. There were no practical means of discovering customers, coordinating schedules, or facilitating payment. Then the Internet showed up.
Almost every government choice creates winners and losers. Some are worthy of criticism. Others deserve praise.
Why do supposedly serious people claim that school vouchers are a scheme designed to destroy public education? Here are three potential explanations for your consideration.
State lawmakers can loosen regulations associated with one of the nation’s most restrictive certificate-of-need regimes.
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