Michael F. Cannon This post offers data to support a claim I make in today’s Wall Street Journal that codifying the health insurance relief that President Trump issued in 2018 would make health insurance affordable for millions without increasing federal spending or disrupting Obamacare. Like the relief President Obama granted US territories in 2014 (which continues to this day), Trump’s ...
Marcos Falcone For decades, Chile stood as Latin America’s success story, achieving prosperity based on free-market policies. Trade liberalization, the privatization of state-owned industries, fiscal responsibility, and the like had been consistently supported by both center-left and center-right administrations since the return of democracy in 1990 and until the first part of the last decade. This model turned Chile into ...
John H. Cochrane My colleague and friend Neale Mahoney writes in favor of price and rent controls in the Sunday New York Times, with Bharat Ramamurti. Neale is also the director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, of which I am a part. While SIEPR does not have “house views” and its fellows may write what they wish, ...
Jennifer Huddleston, Jeffrey A. Singer, and Christopher Gardner AI and Healthcare: A Policy Framework for Innovation, Liability, and Patient Autonomy—Part 3 Two laws, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Health Information for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH), pigeonhole Americans into a one-size-fits-all medical data privacy regime. While adequate for the 1990s, these decades-old regulations now ...
Colleen Hroncich When Lauren Yacht posted on a Northern Virginia homeschool Facebook group that she was thinking about starting a homeschool program, she didn’t know what to expect. As she prepared to move back to the DC area from Florida, she was shocked that she couldn’t find any hybrid schools. She appreciated the model, where kids learn in person some ...
Jeffrey A. Singer The US House of Representatives voted to approve the continuing resolution and appropriations bills that the US Senate approved on November 10. In doing so, it reaffirmed the Senate’s recriminalization of hemp-derived cannabinoids such as gummies and drinks and effectively shut down the US hemp industry. This occurred despite the best efforts of Senators Rand Paul (R‑KY) ...
Michael F. Cannon Steve Moses has been studying and advocating for better long-term care (LTC) for decades. In the latest Cato Policy Analysis, “Better Long-Term Care for Billions Less,” Moses explains how Medicaid dominates the market for LTC services and supports, reduces LTC quality, and subsidizes wealthier individuals at the expense of the poor. Counterintuitively, Medicaid subsidizes LTC for middle-class ...
Walter Olson Number seventeen in our series of occasional roundups on election law and policy: The Supreme Court agrees to review a Fifth Circuit panel decision finding that Congress’ naming of a uniform national election day makes it unlawful for states to accept some ballots posted by that date but received later, as roughly 30 states do. [SCOTUSBlog on Watson ...
Andrew Gillen The Cato Institute has long excelled at originating and disseminating policy ideas. As libertarians, however, we tend to be uncomfortable with the hard work of advancing those ideas through the levers and gears of the policy world, since that typically entails give-and-take compromises and partial victories at best. As Richard Rorty put it, “In democratic countries you get ...
Nicholas Anthony Many people celebrated President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting “political debanking.” Yet, those same people seem to be silent now that the president created new pressures to effectively debank the left. Ebrima Sanneh, a reporter for American Banker, broke the story as banks began to grapple with two seemingly conflicting executive orders. The first order came on August ...