The market for e-scooters is highly competitive. Other cities, including Charlotte and Durham, allow several scooter providers to compete for riders. Not Raleigh, however, despite at least seven companies trying…
The United States health care system is a unique, complex web of consumers, providers, and payers. And it is expensive. Health care spending in the United States has increased from…
John Cochrane, senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, writes in his blog, The Grumpy Economist, how government mandated cross-subsidization negatively impacts the costs of health care in…
Reforming CON is a perennial policy issue for the John Locke Foundation. We have been informing North Carolinians about their Certificate of Need laws for years and years.
Lobbyists and pirates are both notorious rent-seekers. They spend some of their resources to capture others' resources without producing anything of value to the others.
The past few months have been abuzz with questions about how patients will be impacted by the Carolinas-UNC Health Care merger. As of yesterday, another hospital system in Georgia has…
The public has lots of questions about the proposed partnership between UNC Health Care and Carolinas HealthCare System. How will this mega-marriage impact its workforce? Will UNC patients have access to…
Americans aren’t thrilled with the fact that health care costs continue to eat away at their overall take home pay. For those who have insurance through their jobs, deductibles have…
Hadley Heath Manning diagnoses problems with Affordable Care Act health insurance exchanges. She shares her findings in a Washington Examiner column. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) needs the state-based exchanges,…
“The fact is that almost everywhere the groups which pretend to oppose socialism at the same time support policies which, if the principles on which they are based were generalized, would…
Our friend Chris Koopman from George Mason University had this op-ed in the Greensboro News and Record recently and we could not have said it better ourselves: Health care in…
Speaking of unfair, here is an article about using arbitrary notions to govern the competition out of business.