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.
One official was concerned that lifting tariffs would lead to "lots of questions from domestic dairy producers."
Collecting and analyzing newborns' blood could allow the state to surveil people for life.
The obstacles to having more babies can't be moved by tax incentives or subsidized child care.
The obstacles to having more babies can't be moved by tax incentives or subsidized child care.
Certificate of need laws were supposed to ensure high-quality health care in rural places. Instead, they allowed hospitals to veto potential competitors.
In vitro gametogenesi could allow same-sex couples, post-menopausal women, and couples experiencing infertility to have children.
The rules would allow the government to temporarily ease restrictions on WIC formula purchases during a shortage. But those restrictions shouldn't exist in the first place.
When you use incorrect stats to bolster your claims, as Reuters did, all kinds of foolish conclusions follow.
Removing high tariffs from foreign imports of baby formula would ease the supply shock of possible factory closures.
Season 1, Episode 1 Podcasts
A combination of "absurdly high" federal tariffs and excessive FDA regulations created the conditions for a crisis.
No, it's not ethical to keep them from potentially lifesaving information about their babies—and themselves.
A study from researchers at Johns Hopkins is the first to look at the effects of Texas' 2021 "Heartbeat Act" on live births.
Drug tests for new moms are "unnecessary and nonconsensual," argues the ACLU.
But there were still 47,573 more births last year than there were in 2020.
If the FTC wants to know why there's such a notable lack of competition within America's baby formula market, it ought to ask other parts of the federal bureaucracy.
Join Reason on YouTube Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern for a discussion about the limits of population control with Elizabeth Nolan Brown and Scott Winship.
Unless Congress takes action, those tariffs will return on January 1. And the baby formula shortage hasn't yet passed.
The FDA should not stand in the way of parents doing what’s best for their children.
Doing so would be blatantly unconstitutional.
The agency is now taking small steps to allow foreign formula manufacturers to import their goods into the U.S.
The government worsens the baby formula shortage, again.
This crisis is the result of protectionism, regulation, and central planning.
Plus: Resurrecting an extinct tiger, reviewing the police response to the Uvalde shooting, and more...
Markets work if you let them. The Biden administration and Congress should remove supply restraints on baby formula that never made any sense in the first place.
Plus: Trusting the science is now an explicitly partisan issue, stocks are still plummeting, and more...
Why do we have tariffs on imported formula in the middle of a shortage?
Even if Trump's tariffs go away, the debilitating economic effects are likely to linger for years.
Why should an international panel of experts get to decide if you will be allowed to gene-edit your kids?
Due to FDA ban parents must resort to treatments abroad in order to have a healthy baby
Why should not men be eligible for uterine transplants?
Danish study reports circumcised boys at 50 percent greater risk of autism.
Naturally the usual bioluddites are eager to stop progress.
Can't anybody just mind his or her own business?
Claims makers are trying to "dupe" parents into thinking they'll make kids smarter
Is it a problem to learn your ancestry from a newspaper story?
