Season 2, Episode 3 Health Care
Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Permission Slips for Innovation
Part Two: How Certificate of Need laws limit access to health care, and why those rules can be so difficult to dislodge.
Season 2, Episode 3 Health Care
Part Two: How Certificate of Need laws limit access to health care, and why those rules can be so difficult to dislodge.
“The separation of church and state appears nowhere in the Declaration of Independence or Constitution," a top Oklahoma education official said in defense of the state's Ten Commandments decree.
This company made a product to serve victims who don't want to go to police right after a sexual assault. Some politicians want to ban it.
This Kentucky Republican won't stop until he finds a state willing to make legal room for ibogaine, a drug he calls "God's medicine."
The idea, proposed by former President Donald Trump, could curb waste and step in where our delinquent legislators are asleep on the job.
Season 2, Episode 2 Health Care
Too often, it's government bureaucrats acting under the influence of special interests and against the wishes of doctors and patients, with sometimes tragic results.
From overspending to the state's overly powerful unions, California keeps sticking to the taxpayer.
Housing costs, job availability, energy prices, and technological advancement all hinge on a web of red tape that is leaving Americans poorer and less free.
If you want to drink alcohol in California after 2 a.m., it helps to be the billionaire owner of the L.A. Clippers.
There would seem to be little added fairness, and little added incentive for illegal immigration, in letting more people draw from a well that's already run dry.
As conservatives push for cuts, lasting reform will require closing accountability gaps and restructuring entitlements.
The fifth-grader was punished as part of a law that requires students who make threats of "mass violence" be expelled for at least a year.
Susan Hogarth posted a photo of her primary ballot. In North Carolina, that's against the law.
The bill’s sweeping regulations could leave developers navigating a legal minefield and potentially halt progress in its tracks.
"The conversations are overwhelmingly productive and positive," says a representative from Decriminalize Sex Work.
The state Supreme Court unanimously ruled that ridesharing drivers can be exempted from California's crackdown on independent contracting.
Minnesota used federal taxpayer dollars to cover state workers' parking costs, fund the Minnesota Zoo, and teach minority-owned businesses how to apply for government contracts.
Insofar as the justices split, it was due to long-standing disagreement over the nature of the Court's original jurisdiction.
North Carolina taxpayers have already spent over $96 million on the site, while state officials have seized multiple private properties.
The lethal consequences of a common, obscure hospital licensing law.
The company needs a lot of government permission slips to build its planned new city in the Bay Area. It's now changing the order in which it asks for them.
It seems anything the government touches dies—today, it’s thousands of acres of once-productive vineyards.
Chelsea Koetter is asking the Michigan Supreme Court to render the state's debt collection scheme unconstitutional.
According to recently updated figures, more than half of the state's film production credits for 2021 went to just one film, whose two stars collectively earned over $50 million.
Gov. Janet Mills’s office referred critical social media posts to the police. The FPC pushed back.
Bureaucratic overreach is stirring up unnecessary trouble for Utah bartenders.
Collecting and analyzing newborns' blood could allow the state to surveil people for life.
Georgia parents were accused of child abuse after they took their daughter to the doctor. Does the state's story add up?
Georgia parents were accused of child abuse after they took their daughter to the doctor. Does the state's story add up?
And a grand jury says that's illegal.
"This is an obvious attempt to use our public schools to convert kids to Christianity. We live in a democracy, not a theocracy," one ACLU attorney tells Reason.
The state cut down private fruit trees and offered gift cards as compensation. It didn't solve the citrus canker problem.
The U.S. Conference of Mayors has endorsed "heartland visas," which would create a pathway for skilled immigrants to settle in stagnating communities.
Of the 21 Texas House Republicans who joined Democrats to kill school choice during the special sessions, only seven survived their primaries.
The state has thousands of unauthorized shops but fewer than 200 licensed marijuana sellers.
Pastor Joshua Robertson stepped up when his community asked for support. His efforts have more people realizing that there is an alternative to the failing school system.
Previously you had to hit the animal yourself during hunting season to claim the carcass.
DeSantis' chief of staff used a personal phone to coordinate migrant flights to Martha's Vineyard. Now DeSantis' lawyers say those phone logs should be secret.
The bill would banish insurance companies from the state if they invest in companies profiting from oil and gas.
A handful of Republican lawmakers worked with Democrats to repeal an 1864 law banning most abortions.
The blanket pardon is one of the largest yet, and another sign of the collapse of public support for marijuana prohibition.
There may not be a perfect solution to ending homelessness, but there are some clear principles to reduce the friction for those working to do so.
The plaintiffs are challenging the state's widespread surveillance, which it collects through over 600 cameras.
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