We Should Keep Expanding Telehealth, Even After the Pandemic
Senators and state officials are proposing ways to sweep aside nonsensical regulations that place geographic limits on telehealth.
Senators and state officials are proposing ways to sweep aside nonsensical regulations that place geographic limits on telehealth.
Entrepreneurs discouraged by red tape even before COVID-19 need officials to leave them alone.
"I hope my case can start removing senseless boundaries to teletherapy," said Brokamp, who is suing in federal court on First Amendment grounds.
Libertarian History/Philosophy
"I just do my own thing," said the George Mason University economist and author of The State Against Blacks.
Occupational licensing rules are more often arbitrary bureaucratic hurdles than they are protections for health or safety.
House Bill 1193 loosened or abolished rules governing more than 30 different professions.
In an op ed coauthored with former Colorado state supreme court justice Rebecca Love Kourlis, he outlines some ways to make legal services more affordable for the poor and lower middle class.
Harsh occupational license rules locked them out, except when they were locked up. A new bill just passed to change the rules.
Tennessee's requirement that barbers have at least a high school education is "unconstitutional, unlawful, and unenforceable," ruled the state's Chancery Court.
Officials claim doing business is a revocable “privilege,” but many Americans see it as a right that they’ll exercise with or without licenses and permits.
Licensing laws can be weaponized to chill speech.
The Covid pandemic strengthens the case for abolishing a requirement that should never have been imposed in the first place.
As a state attorney, the young GOP senator oversaw raids of more than a dozen massage parlors, but he didn’t secure a single sex trafficking conviction.
Finding a steady job is the best way to keep a person from going back to prison or jail. These changes make a lot of sense.
The Occupational Freedom and Opportunity Act "will save thousands of Floridians both time and money for years to come," says Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Making a living is a right, not a privilege, and should be respected as such.
The Institute for Justice fights for the right to receive paid training as a farrier without a high school diploma or equivalent.
Reducing law enforcement requires more than merely cutting and shifting a budget.
A flawed argument for judicial passivity in cases of government regulation.
Following Georgia's ruling in favor of a lactation consultant, Pennsylvania’s high court reviews another “unreasonable” occupational licensing scheme.
"We have long interpreted the Georgia Constitution as protecting a right to work in one's chosen profession free from unreasonable government interference."
Pandemic patients get better care when medical professionals are free to work where they're needed. The same will undoubtedly be true of regular patients after COVID-19 has left our lives.
Most serious approaches to the crisis, however, are decidedly libertarian. They involve reducing regulations that keep industries from responding rapidly in an emergency situation.
"You cannot just decide you want to sell groceries," said Barbara Ferrer, the director of L.A. County Public Health.
It's time to free midwives from excessive regulation and make room for more home births.
Mississippi has a reputation for being one of the most obese states in the nation, as well as having one of America's highest incarceration rates. Neither will be improved by treating unlicensed dieticians like serious criminals.
Mats Järlström's research never would have seen the light of day if the Oregon Board of Examiners for Engineering and Land Surveying had its way.
Adult performers are outraged at the proposed licensing requirements, and have vowed to fight the bill.
The real motive for laws like this has nothing to do with scissors and glue. It's all about protectionism.
Undercover sheriff's deputies posing as homeowners hired handymen to paint, install recessed lighting, or do other tasks that require licenses. Then they arrested them.
People who want to work should be allowed to work.
Right now, most licensing boards require that the majority of members be from the same licensed profession. It's not difficult to see how that leads to anti-competitive rules.
High permit fees and unprepared bureaucrats get in the way of delicious street tacos and bacon dogs.
"Liberty," Thomas Jefferson wrote, "is unobstructed action according to our will; but rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will, within the limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others."
This year, Mississippi and North Carolina both ditched a vague "good moral character" clause that kept occupational licensing out of reach for people with criminal records.
The case is a bizarre example of occupational licensing woes and backward regulations.
Ontario has lost millions trying to sell cannabis.
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Licensing reform efforts cross partisan barriers. Unfortunately, so do efforts to cripple opportunity and prosperity.
The Democratic presidential candidate is the latest example that occupational licensing is truly a bipartisan battle.
No diploma, no making money telling people how to eat better.
Previously, hair braiders were required to spend 1,500 hours taking cosmetology classes.
Bar exams should be abolished. But if that's not feasible, this modest proposal for exam reform should help restore them to their former glory!
Gov. Tom Wolf just signed a bill to recognize occupational licenses obtained in different parts of the country.