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The evidence is clear that CON laws are barriers to accessible, affordable, and high-quality care. By restricting competition and limiting investment in new supply, these restrictions make it harder for providers to respond to patient needs. States seeking to expand access and lower costs should move away from burdensome and obsolete CON programs and toward an open and competitive health care system.
Proposals to drive the minimum wage to $30 an hour must be met with skepticism. If a wage floor of $20 an hour in one major industry leads to fewer jobs and higher prices, policymakers should at least reconsider before assuming a much larger wage push will be painless across a broader swath of the economy. If policymakers really want to help workers, they should focus on policies that expand opportunity and increase productivity, not wage floors that risk pricing disadvantaged workers out of the labor market.
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.
