News and Commentary Alec Stapp critiques the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust report's omission of non-digital markets, arguing food and healthcare are in even greater need of anti-trust enforcement. The ProMarket [...]
News and Commentary Kimberley Young reports for the UK's association of optometrists that although significant progress has been made, European opticians and optometrists still face scope of practice restrictions according [...]
News and Commentary Matt Shafer announces that The Council of State Governments has received a grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to support development of new interstate compacts addressing [...]
Rent Check Alex Muresianu has a guest post discussing the role of occupational licensing fees and state finances. Though a tempting source of revenue, relying on licensing fees to shore [...]
In a time of high unemployment, placing a tax on finding new work seems an obvious misstep. Yet the recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has put a large fiscal [...]
News and Commentary Sammy Caiola reports for NPR's CapRadio that California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a bill allowing nurse practitioners (NPs) to diagnose patients and prescribe medications; still, NPs [...]
News and Commentary Senators Mike Lee and Dianne Feinstein are among those supporting the “Military Spouse Licensing Relief Act”, a bill easing professional transitions for relocated military spouses, reports Chris [...]
One of the most popular justifications for occupational licensing is the existence of an information asymmetry between consumers and practitioners. As the information asymmetry (and the possibility of abuse) increases, [...]
News and Commentary Kevin O'Reilly describes the American Medical Association's (AMA) resistance to a California bill that would allow nurse practitioners to practice without physician supervision. AMA's CEO claims the [...]
News and Commentary Niskanen's Robert Orr traces current physician shortage in the U.S. to the Graduate Medical Education National Advisory Committee Report's predication of an impending physician surplus, which influenced [...]