News
National Journal | Bipartisan Effort Would Reshape FDA Drug Approvals
Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill are proposing significant changes to the way the Food and Drug Administration approves drugs, and they are engaged in an unusual bipartisan effort to slide these changes into bills reauthorizing an FDA fee program. But they’re doing it over the protests of consumer groups that say it will make it too easy to approve new drugs.
Econ Comments & Analysis
E21 | Yes, the Health Law Worsens the Deficit
Last week the Mercatus Center published my study showing that the health care law of 2010 (the ACA) will add at least $340 billion to federal deficits over the next ten years, and more than $1.15 trillion to net federal spending.
Blogs
The American | More unintended consequences of Obamacare
Where there’s a will—and some political advantage for some politicians or lobbying group somewhere—there’s a way. And one more reason to think Obamacare will be far more expensive than current forecasts assume.
