Commentary
by AFP When COVID-19 hit the United States, local officials closed most doctors’ and dentists’ offices to all but emergency visits. With tens of millions of Americans suddenly cut off from clinicians, policymakers rushed to relax regulations related to telehealth. These changes allowed quarantined Americans to get in touch with their providers virtually, via video […]
Certificate-of-need laws have slashed hundreds of millions of dollars in potential health care investment in Iowa, cost providers tens of thousands of dollars, and significantly delayed critical expansions in the health care industry, a new report by Americans for Prosperity Foundation finds. The report, authored by Kevin Schmidt, director of investigations at Americans for Prosperity Foundation, […]
On Friday night, a Southwest Airlines flight took off from Houston to Albuquerque. It arrived on time. I was not on that plane, and odds are neither were you. However, you may still have heard about it because a journalist on the flight reported that she heard the pilot say “Let’s go, Brandon” over the […]
People want to know what the law is. It’s a fundamental part of any free society—we should know exactly what rules apply to us, and what rules apply to the government. That is why the idea of having a body of “secret law” is offensive to our constitutional system of government. But what if I […]
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, who has famously suggested that 75 is about the right age to die, recently took to the pages of Politico to argue that if we allow the government to control the price of prescription drugs, “we will still have robust innovation.” But the primary example the 64-year-old Dr. Emanuel uses to make […]
Public accommodations laws “help ensure a free and open economy.” Traditionally, public accommodations laws have been applied to, well, public accommodations, such as hotels, or “what the old common law promised to any member of the public wanting a meal at the inn, that accepting the usual terms of service, they will not be turned […]
I vividly remember September 11, 2001, and the horrific events that occurred that day. Last month, our country joined together to remember the victims of this horrific attack and our brave first responders who boldly entered the chaos to ensure every possible life was saved. It’s hard for any American alive that day to forget […]
SPARTANBURG, S.C. – Tomorrow, Americans for Prosperity-South Carolina (AFP-SC) will host its second Health Care Anywhere event in Spartanburg where the grassroots group will discuss how the government is getting in the way of South Carolinians accessing quality health care and what citizens can do to put a stop to it. RSVPed media are welcome to attend. […]
Certificate-of-need laws result in higher health care costs, reduced access to important medical services, and worse patient outcomes, according to a new report from Americans for Prosperity Foundation. In Virginia, South Carolina, Michigan, and Iowa, the four states in which the effects of CON restrictions are covered in Permission to care: How certificate of need laws harm patients and stifle […]
