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If the goal is more access, lower costs, higher quality, and a more competitive health care system, the solution is clear: roll back CON laws and stop letting state planners block investment in care. Tennessee’s Senate has taken a meaningful step in that direction. The House should follow through.
If the goal is more access and lower costs, the solution is straightforward: repeal CON laws and stop treating the provision of health care like a privilege that must be rationed.
If policymakers are serious about energy affordability, economic growth, and technological leadership, then permitting reform must be a key part of the solution.
Overstating the benefits of tax increases may worsen the fiscal outlook by encouraging lawmakers to avoid the necessary structural reforms that will put the budget on a sustainable path. The debate over tax policy must be grounded in reality.
The regulatory developments of 2025 underscore how overregulation and unchecked agency authority tend to raise costs, slow growth, and limit opportunity, while strong procedural guardrails and regulatory reforms can deliver better outcomes. As regulatory debates continue through 2026, policymakers and advocates should focus on reforms that promote accountability, streamline permitting, expand competition, lower costs, and enable innovation.
In 2025, Americans for Prosperity helped deliver transformational reforms that lowered costs, expanded opportunity, and limited government overreach for everyday people across the nation.
Patients across the nation are suffering from artificial scarcity in health care. Montana’s success demonstrates that regulatory relief expands access and lowers costs.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is revisiting its Personal Financial Data Right rule under Section 1033 of the Dodd-Frank Act. This rule is designed to give consumers more control over their financial information, allowing them to share their account data with apps and services. It mandates a standardized framework for data sharing across the entire financial system, including fintech firms like Venmo and Robinhood.
If policymakers want to deliver care that is faster, cost-effective, high-quality, and more innovative, they should start by ending the reign of CON, and allowing patients, not bureaucrats or special interests, to decide what is needed.
