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Joe Biden

Biden Has a Plan for a New National 'Supply Commander'

No, we don’t need someone to “take command of the national supply chain for essential equipment, medications, and protective gear.”

Max Gulker | 11.13.2020 3:55 PM

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Organ transplants

When Drones Deliver Human Organs

Imagine skies filled with drones carrying kidneys and livers, on their way to save the lives of people awaiting transplants. The future is here!

Liz Wolfe | 9.28.2020 4:10 PM

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Coronavirus

This Health Care Law Bars Competition And Drives Up Prices, Even as a Pandemic Rages

During COVID-19, many states have rolled back their “certificate of need” laws. Now is the time to abolish them.

Renée Flaherty and Daryl James | 7.20.2020 10:15 AM

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Coronavirus

Andrew Cuomo's Coronavirus Response Has Been a Failure

The media's fawning interviews obscure the New York governor's record.

Billy Binion | 7.17.2020 2:10 PM

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Coronavirus

Coronavirus Pandemic Paving the Way for Drone Delivery Services

The government granted a temporary waiver allowing drone-based deliveries of medical supplies in North Carolina. That shouldn't end when the pandemic does.

Eric Boehm | 6.16.2020 8:00 AM

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Coronavirus

Governments Have Screwed Up Mask Purchase and Distribution. Maybe Everyone Should Be a Libertarian in a Pandemic.

The state can have all the capacity it needs and still get things badly wrong.

Brian Doherty | 5.8.2020 10:30 AM

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Sex Crimes

After He Found California's Indefinite Detention of Sex Offenders Wasn't Working, the State Shut Him Down and Destroyed His Research

Psychologist Jesus Padilla was forbidden to complete research that could have set many indefinitely committed people free. He died with the work unfinished.

Steven Yoder | 3.1.2020 6:00 AM

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Health Care

State Regulations Let Hospitals Literally Veto New Competition. Here's How To Change That.

Certificate of need laws are on the books in 36 states, but they mostly serve as a way for hospitals to limit competition and keep prices high. State lawmakers should be dismantling them.

Eric Boehm | 2.26.2020 4:30 PM

Shock Treatment

Civil Liberties

Psychiatric Hospitals Can Still Force Patients to Accept Shock Treatment. One Connecticut Patient Has Been Shocked 500 Times in Five Years.

Despite concerns about efficacy and side effects, courts are slow to act on behalf of patients who don’t want the treatment.

Michael Simonson | 2.11.2020 10:45 AM

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Health Care

Michigan Lawmakers Overturn a Bad Regulation Restricting Access to Cancer Treatments

They should scrap other Certificate of Need laws too.

Eric Boehm | 11.18.2019 2:45 PM

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Medicaid

The Trump Administration Should Stand for Cancer Patients' Freedom to Choose

Restricting a cancer treatment to only hospitals will harm patients.

Ron Paul | 5.15.2019 2:05 PM

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Texas

Parents Fight a Texas Hospital Over Their Daughter's Life Support

A judge has granted Payton Summons' parents a restraining order against the hospital.

Zuri Davis | 10.2.2018 3:45 PM

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Doctors

How Formerly Independent Doctors Were Pushed Out of Business

Rules and regulations intended to reform health care are driving private practices out of business by overconfident design.

J.D. Tuccille | 8.28.2018 12:00 AM

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Brickbats

Brickbat: Now That It Is Permitted, It Is Also Required

Charles Oliver | 6.25.2018 4:00 AM

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Regulation

Cancer Survivor Fined $2,260 for Providing Rides to Hospital Patients

Hospital describes her services as "invaluable."

Kayla Stetzel | 2.28.2018 3:06 PM

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Hospitals

Virginia House Approves Limited Regulatory Reforms for Hospitals, Mental Health Clinics

Virginia's Certificate of Public Need laws drive up costs and limit access to care, but there's little political will for widespread reform or repeal.

Eric Boehm | 2.7.2018 2:46 PM

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Sanctuary Churches

Sanctuary Churches Take in Immigrants and Take on Trump

With deportations on the rise, hundreds of houses of worship are joining the resistance.

Shikha Dalmia | 1.11.2018 6:00 AM

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