Improving American Health Insurance Markets: Accountability to Patients, Not Government
This paper examines the effects of the employer-sponsored insurance tax exclusion on health insurance costs and proposes solutions that could lead to “a health insurance market that is accountable to patients, doesn’t push up health care prices unnecessarily, and one that provides a product that follows a person regardless of their employment situation.”
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Creating Pro-Innovation Fintech Regulation
This paper illustrates, through the example of “fintech” (financial technology) lending, how fintech “can improve our lives and how poor regulation risks harming the very people it seeks to help.”
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Improving Innovation in Health Services Through Better Payment Reforms
This paper provides a brief analysis of Medicare’s fee-for-service payment systems. The paper suggests that these payment systems have led to inefficiencies and fragmented care delivery. Finally, the paper discusses the attempt by the Affordable Care Act to address these issues and suggests other potential solutions.
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Consumer Protection at the FTC and the CFPB
This paper examines and makes recommendations on improving consumer protection efforts at both the Federal Trade Commission and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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State Licensing Boards, Antitrust, and Innovation
This paper discusses occupational licensing boards, competition, and the role antitrust law can play in the marketplace.
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Occupational Licensing Run Wild
This paper provides historical analysis of occupational licensure in the United States, discusses the costs and benefits of our licensing system, explores so-called “licensing creep,” and proposes solutions to help address “occupational licensing run wild.”
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Creativity and Innovation Unchained: Why Copyright Law Must be Updated for the Digital Age by Simplifying It
This paper discusses how “the basics of copyright are fully compatible with modern technology, but specific provisions enacted years ago to try to address long-gone business and technological problems are still on the books. Instead of solving yesterday’s problems, these sticky laws shackle today’s creative marketplace.”
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Repeal the Jones Act for American Energy
This paper discusses how “the Jones Act is a particularly promising target for repeal or modification because it could be a confidence-building measure toward freer trade, less costly regulation, and less government interference in energy markets.”
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Restoring Meaningful Limits to “Waters of the United States”
This paper discusses the EPA’s “expansive regulatory approach” to the Clean Water Act, most notably in the “Waters of the United States Rule.”
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A Review of Department of Education Programs: Transgender Issues, Racial Quotas in School Discipline, and Campus Sexual Assault Mandates
This paper details “several areas where a single federal administrative agency has replaced the legitimate function of the legislature to define discrimination based on race, color, national origin, sex, and religion.”
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