A Colorado Bill Uses “Levels of Scrutiny” to Protect Competition
Judicial protection from most economic regulations — even grossly unfair and anti-competitive ones — is so weak as to be nearly non-existent.
John Lott: The Facts About Assault Weapons and Crime
“Yet despite being at the center of the gun-control debate for decades, neither President Obama nor Ms. Feinstein (the author of the 1994 legislation) seems to understand the leading research on the effects of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban. In addition, they continue to mislabel the weapons they seek to ban.” Continue reading
Is ObamaCare’s medical-loss ratio mandate increase health insurance premiums
“[T]here are few signs that health care will become more affordable as a result of the law. Indeed, it increasingly looks as if the opposite could be true — that ObamaCare may be causing higher premiums rather than preventing them.” Continue reading
Texas town allows teachers to carry concealed guns
Employees also must undergo training in crisis intervention and hostage situations. And they must use bullets that minimize the risk of ricochet, similar to those carried by air marshals on planes. Continue reading
David Kopel: Guns, Mental Illness and Newtown
There were 18 random mass shootings in the 1980s, 54 in the 1990s, and 87 in the 2000s. Continue reading
ObamaCare’s ‘Essential Health Benefits’: Few States Implement, HHS ‘Is in Clear Violation of the Law’
U.S. Health and Human Services flouts federal law in its attempt to have states define “essential health benefits.” Continue reading
How Medical Licensing Laws Harm Patients and Trap Doctors
[A]s with all other forms of occupational licensing, medical licensing actually serves primarily to protect the practitioners at the expense of the public. Continue reading
In the needed time to comply with ObamaCare regulations each year, the Empire State Building could be constructed 11 times.
Each year, ObamaCare will take American job creators and families nearly 80 million hours to comply with. Continue reading
Obamacare outlaws half of all individual plans sold
More than half of the people who had individual health insurance in 2010 were enrolled in plans that won’t pass the new standards set up by Obama’s law. Continue reading
10 Ways Obamacare Limits Patient Choice
bamacare limits patient choice either directly or indirectly in a variety of ways. Here are just 10 Obamacare provisions to be aware of. Continue reading
Hospital consolidation increases costs, ObamaCare promotes it
In the Wall Street Journal yesterday morning, a report from the other end of the monopolization of health care services – what happens when a hospital buys out your specialist. Continue reading
Federal judge bars enforcement of contraception mandate on Colorado Company
A senior U.S. District Court Judge for the District of Colorado issued an order forbidding the government from taking action against a company called Hercules Industries for refusing to provide contraceptive coverage to its employees. Continue reading
