Rent Check New Jersey Pharmacist intern vaccination powers expand. How licensing hurts practitioners. Tuition for required education leaves many in debt, and sometimes these "education requirements" come in the form [...]
One of the most tired justifications for occupational licensing is that consumers must be protected from unscrupulous practitioners. These arguments frequently ignore the fact that countless other professions and industries [...]
We have written extensively on the ability of non-MD healthcare providers, namely nurse practitioners and physician assistants, to lower prices and increase access to medical care for consumers. But more [...]
Rent Check SB 255, Ohio's most recent occupational licensing reform, heads to the Governor's desk. The main feature is that it would force a periodic review of the Buckeye State's [...]
An occupational licensing reform we’ve covered in the past, SB 255, which would liberalize of Ohio’s occupational licensing laws, now heads to governor John Kasich’s desk. The bill would: [E]stablish [...]
A few weeks ago, a two-part blog post from Frank Pasquale and Sandeep Vaheesan writing for the Law and Political Economy Blog makes the case for occupational licensing by tying [...]
Rent Check New report from Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Treasury on how to improve the U.S. healthcare system by increasing choice and competition. Among the many [...]
Last week, a joint report prepared by the Departments of Treasury, Health and Human Services, and Labor articulated a number of potential reforms to inject more “choice and competition” into [...]
Rent Check A new report from the Institute for Justice finds the indirect costs of occupational licensing through resource misallocation dwarf the costs of "deadweight loss." News and Commentary [...]
The ways in which occupational licensing imposes greater costs on consumers to the benefit of the licensed profession are familiar and intuitive: by restricting supply, licensing allows professionals to charge [...]