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Improving Federally-Funded Youth Programs
Thirty-nine percent of homeless individuals are under the age of eighteen, about 1.7 million American youth. While the number of young homeless people has risen in recent years, reports indicate that...
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Lawmakers Propose a Single Food Safety Administration
Each year 3,000 Americans die from foodborne illness, a tragedy many blame on an outdated, fragmented food safety regulatory system. Currently, a variety of separate agencies regulate food safety in...
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Are We Making Progress in Valuing Health and Longevity in Regulatory Analysis?
It is RegBlog’s fifth anniversary, and also five years since we first wrote about the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) efforts to update the values it uses for mortality risk reductions....
View ArticleProposed HHS Rule Would Extend Health Care Protections to Student Health Plans
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently issued a proposed rule to extend the consumer protections created by the 2010 Patient Protection Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to students...
View ArticleHHS Implements New Survey Data Standards
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently adopted new data standards for its health surveys in order to monitor better, and then act to reduce, disparities in health between “commonly...
View ArticleAn Incomplete Contraceptive Coverage Compromise
In Friday’s highly publicized announcement, President Obama may have helped contain the political firestorm over the new federal mandate that health plans cover contraceptives. But the embers are still...
View ArticleWhy Cabinet Secretaries Should Not Threaten Members of Congress
Among the many twists and turns in this summer’s legislative drama involving Republicans’ efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, one sideshow revealed an important lesson worth...
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President Trump’s Regulatory Agenda
“We’re going to be cutting regulation massively…we think we can cut regulations by 75 percent, maybe more,” President Donald J. Trump said shortly after his inauguration. But is it possible—or even...
View ArticleHow FDA Should Use Its Authority to Regulate Human Cells
In 2012, an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, “The FDA Wants to Regulate Your Cells,” criticized a recent federal trial court decision in which a judge endorsed the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s...
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During the first presidential debate, Governor Mitt Romney said that “regulations are essential” but that parts of Dodd-Frank are excessive. See related RegBlog post. The Food and Drug Administration...
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) began an investigation into certain energy drinks after allegations that five deaths were linked to their consumption. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a rule creating more stringent car emissions standards and reducing sulfur concentration in gasoline starting in 2014. The Supreme Court of the...
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Barack Obama proposed a new budget. The U.S. House of Representatives voted to constrain the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) regulation of climate change. Colorado became the first state to...
View ArticleRegulating Cost-Benefit Analysis
Recently, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) that asks the public to comment on the possible development of regulations for...
View ArticleHow to Better Regulate Payments to Research Participants
The development of life-saving drugs and cutting-edge treatments depends on people participating in clinical research. But federal regulators restrict clinical researchers from using the exchange of...
View ArticleSupreme Court to Review Notice Requirements for Medicare Payment Rules
Between $3 and $4 billion in Medicare hospital reimbursements hang in the balance due to a case that the U.S. Supreme Court will decide by this June. Whether hospitals can get their hands on this money...
View ArticleWhat Tomorrow Holds for U.S. Health Care
Problems with the U.S. health care system—including the rising costs of prescription drugs, the current opioid abuse crisis, and continued gaps in access to care—have moved front and center in national...
View ArticleWill the Affordable Care Act Die by Non-Enforcement?
If the President of the United States opposes a bill passed by Congress, he may veto it. But is he allowed to sabotage through executive action a law passed by Congress and signed by an earlier...
View ArticleThe Need for Vaccine Regulation Overhaul
The vast majority of health care providers in the United States fail to report vaccine injuries to the government as required by law, one study showed. The source of the problem lies with an “outdated”...
View ArticleHow Ending an ACA Subsidy Was Worth its Weight in Silver
When President Donald J. Trump published a 21-word tweet in the early hours of October 13, 2017, he probably did not realize that he had laid the foundation for years-long litigation with the U.S....
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