MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'government regulation'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:40:55 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3511527&cid=t_290510_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FVj-dbbsuYAs%2F By David BoazSteven Malanga of the Manhattan Institute writes in the Wall Street Journal about Andy Stern’s retirement from the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). He noted that Stern’s principal legacy will be having headed up a union that managed to add 1.2 million members during a time when overall unionization rates continued to plunge in the U.S. But it’s important to understand how Mr. Stern pulled this off, because his union’s story is really the story of the transformation of the labor movement in America. The SEIU did not win its most significant victories on the picket lines, but rather in backroom political deals with legislative leaders, especially in states like California where the political class is already union-friendly. Those deals helped... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3511527 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:57:53 +0100 3511527 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3382821&cid=t_290510_87_f&fid=38962&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthbeatblog.com%2F2010%2F03%2Fhighlights-from-the-reconciliation-bill-and-maggies-comments-on-the-changes.html Overall, the changes in the reconciliation bill will make the Senate bill more progressive—and fairer.My prediction: the bill will pass. Those who oppose universal coverage are becoming angrier, louder, more abusive, and more frantic. This is because they realize that they are losing, and now they are just flailing about.This evening (Thursday) I heard Bart Stupak acknowledge, on “Hardball with Chris Matthews”, that while the Democrats may not have the votes today, by Sunday, they could well have them. On this, I agree with Stupak.Below, the details of the new bill, and my comments in red. Under the new reconciliation bill: Low-income and middle-income families will have an easier time affording premiums. The tax credits for health insurance premiums are more generous for ... Health Beat blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3382821 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:39:29 +0100 3382821 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3126584&cid=t_290510_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FI-LnFZOaTR8%2F By Jim HarperFor more technical audiences, I wrote recently on the Tech Liberation Front blog about Google’s claim to favor “openness” when, in fact, its crown jewels—search and ad serving—are closed systems. Google is “free to be wrong about philosophy, of course,” I wrote. “It doesn’t matter at all—except when Google tries to impose its philosophy on others. And in the debate over ‘net neutrality’ regulation it has done exactly that.” Now Google is in the sights of those proposing public utility regulation of Internet search. It would be entertaining ironic comeuppance for Google, but “search neutrality” regulation would ossify an innovative business and deprive consumers of the benefits of competition. (Source: C... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3126584 Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:41:41 +0100 3126584 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2912163&cid=t_290510_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FyF0NSkZgGWE%2F Last night National Government Radio promoted a documentary on National Government TV about the financial crisis of 2008, which concludes that the problem was . . . not enough government. If the “Frontline” episode mentioned any of the ways that government created the crisis — cheap money from the central bank, tax laws that encourage debt over equity, government regulation that pressured lenders to issue mortgages to borrowers who wouldn’t be able to pay them back — NPR didn’t mention it. For information on those causes, take a look at this paper by Lawrence H. White or get the new book Financial Fiasco by Johan Norberg, which Amity Shlaes called “a masterwork in miniature.” Available in hardcover or immediately as an e-book. Or on Kindle! A... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2912163 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:25:19 +0100 2912163 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2894488&cid=t_290510_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FN9Bnxw99M1k%2F Last night, thanks to Craigslist and a Web-enabled cell phone, I unloaded two extra tickets to tonight’s World Cup qualifying game between the U.S. and Costa Rica in under an hour. (8:00, ESPN2 “USA! USA! USA!”) Wanting to avoid the hassle of selling the tickets at RFK, I placed an ad on Craigslist offering them at cost, figuring I might find a taker and arrange to hand them off downtown today or at the stadium tonight. Checking email as I walked to the gym, I found an inquiry about the tickets and phoned the guy, who happened to live 100 feet from where I was walking. A few minutes later, he had the tickets and I had the cash. This quaint story is a single data point in a trend line—the high-tech version of It’s Getting Better All the Time. Everyone living ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2894488 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:33:20 +0100 2894488 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2838905&cid=t_290510_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fo56RFSOqAVg%2F In response to claims that texting-while-driving (TWD) causes traffic accidents, Congress is considering “a federal bill that would force states to ban texting while driving if they want to keep receiving federal highway money.” This approach to forcing a particular policy on the states mimics the 1984 Federal Uniform Driving Age Act, which threatened to withhold federal highway funds unless states adopted a 21-year-old minimum legal drinking age. The justification for that law was reducing traffic fatalities among 18-20 year olds. A federal ban on TWD is not compelling: 1. Federal imposition of the 21-year old minimum drinking age did not save lives. 2. A ban on texting might increase other distractions: adjusting the radio, putting on makeup, eating a sandwich, reading a map,... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2838905 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:56:09 +0100 2838905 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2838906&cid=t_290510_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FY3bsaNyxMtU%2F So asks the Washington Post in a cogent editorial about FCC Chairman Jules Genachowski’s speech proposing to regulate the terms on which broadband service is provided. (More from TLJ, Julian Sanchez, and me.) The WaPo piece nicely dismantles the few incidents and arguments that underlie Genachowski’s call for regulation. As the debate about “‘net neutrality” regulation continues, I imagine it will move from principled arguments, such as whether the government should control communications infrastructure, to practical ones: Will limitations on ISPs’ ability to manage their networks cause Internet brown-outs and failures? (This is what Comcast was trying to avoid when it ham-handedly degraded the use of the BitTorrent protocol on its network.) Will regulat... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2838906 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:17:55 +0100 2838906 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2823956&cid=t_290510_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FxDE4sMk1RCQ%2F Will Saletan writes that he and his colleagues at Slate seem to be increasingly engaged in libertarian sallies at the food police and other nanny statists. “Are we becoming conservative?” he worries, wringing his hands. Not quite: We’re what we were five or 10 years ago: skeptics and fact-mongers with a bias for personal freedom. It’s the left that’s turning conservative. Well, not conservative, but pushy. Weisberg put his finger on the underlying trend: “Because Democrats hold power at the moment, they face the greater peril of paternalistic overreaching.” Today’s morality cops are less interested in your bedroom than your refrigerator. They’re more likely to berate you for outdoor smoking than for outdoor necking. It isn’t God w... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2823956 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:45:12 +0100 2823956 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2823964&cid=t_290510_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FGP_FEocr8sE%2F “My critics say that I’m taking over every sector of the economy,” President Obama sighed to George Stephanopoulos during his Sunday media blitz. Not every sector. Just health care energy local schools banks insurance companies automobile companies compensation at financial firms newspapers the internet This president and his Ivy League advisers believe that they know how an economy should develop better than hundreds of millions of market participants spending their own money every day. That is what F. A. Hayek called the “fatal conceit,” the idea that smart people can design a real economy on the basis of their abstract ideas. This is not quite socialism. In most of these cases, President Obama doesn’t propose to actually nationalize the means of product... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2823964 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:10:35 +0100 2823964 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2823967&cid=t_290510_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FFuQ414OVrvQ%2F “Americans are more likely today than in the recent past to believe that government is taking on too much responsibility for solving the nation’s problems and is over-regulating business,” according to a new Gallup Poll. New Gallup data show that 57% of Americans say the government is trying to do too many things that should be left to businesses and individuals, and 45% say there is too much government regulation of business. Both reflect the highest such readings in more than a decade. Byron York of the Examiner notes: The last time the number of people who believe government is doing too much hit 57 percent was in October 1994, shortly before voters threw Democrats out of power in both the House and Senate. It continued to rise after that, hitting 60 percent in Decembe... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2823967 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:18:43 +0100 2823967 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2081464&cid=t_290510_87_f&fid=37069&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpolicymed.com%2F2009%2F01%2Fprescription-project-conference-drug-free-zones.html Finally, the White House and the U. S.Capitol Building have become “drug-free” zones from the corrosive and corrupting influence of lobbyists for the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.  State Senator Richard Moore, MA This was the undercurrent of the recent conference of the Prescription Project held last month in Washington DC. Presentations included “Reform of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA),” by Bruce Psaty, M.D. and Steven Nissen, M.D., both unofficial candidates for the job of FDA Commissioner, and “Incentivizing Drug Discovery and Drug Safety,” by Alastair Wood, M.D.  These presentations are actually quite balanced. Barbara Barnes, M.D., of the University of Pittsburg and Chairman of Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Educati... Policy and Medicine blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2081464 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:36:53 +0100 2081464 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2022021&cid=t_290510_87_f&fid=37069&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.policymed.com%2F2008%2F12%2Fimap-prescription-project-report-on-conflict-of-interest-in-medical-societies.html Prescription Project who’s stated goal is Ensuring that industry-physician relationships are free of conflicts of interest …(kicking industry out of medicine), has hired The Institute of Medicine as a Profession to write a report on Conflict of Interest Policies in Medical Societies is expected to be released in Early 2009. According to both parties the Report will be very similar to the AAMC report on conflict of interest in medical education released earlier this summer but without any of the constraints that the AAMC report had by including university leadership and industry.  Rather than engaging the associations, the staff at IMAP has selected to cherry pick “friends” who are former and current association leaders and officers to write the report.  The report will... Policy and Medicine blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2022021 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:23:22 +0100 2022021 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1829654&cid=t_290510_87_f&fid=37069&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.policymed.com%2F2008%2F09%2Fphysician-payment-sunshine-to-the-angry-so-what.html Several months ago, I met a young woman who was the chief lobbyist for a well know anti-industry group.  In our discussion she mentioned that her group was in favor of the revised Physician Payment Sunshine Act, because they see it as a first step in their march towards eliminating all pharmaceutical and device marketing.  She explained how this data would be useful in embarrassing physicians not to work with industry.  At the time I shrugged off the comments due to her youth. This week Eli Lilly announced that as a company they are going to disclose payments to physicians.  At this announcement one who expect accolades from those who have been saying “we want disclosure”. Senator Kohl the sponsor of the physician payment sunshine act stated: "Eli Lilly is lea... Policy and Medicine blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1829654 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:00:00 +0100 1829654 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1655823&cid=t_290510_87_f&fid=37069&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.policymed.com%2F2008%2F07%2Fnlarx-singing-t.html Several months ago National Legislative Association to Reduce Prescription Prices (NLARX) announced that their satellite symposium at the National Council of State Legislators (NCSL) in New Orleans held today, July 25, 2008 was going to be a discussion on legislative victories they had won in New York, Massachusetts and Washington, DC. The agenda has changed in the last few weeks to:  A Shot in the Arm: New Lessons in the Battle to Save Drug Costs and Protect Patients: . Now the discussions are on the success of the panel from last year’s meeting (that’s right they had a good time last year so why not talk about it) and the 3-state New England collaboration to provide objective drug information to prescribers ("academic detailing"), legislative campaigns to ban gifts to... Policy and Medicine blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1655823 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:20:19 +0100 1655823 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=850666&cid=t_290510_155_f&fid=35947&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftissuepathology.typepad.com%2Fweblog%2F2007%2F09%2Fma-biotech-fund.html Gov. Deval Patrick has introduced a bill proposing a major investment in and expansion of the life sciences industry in Massachusetts. “We want Massachusetts to provide the global platform for bringing innovation from the drawing board to the market, from inspiration to commercialization, and from ideas to cure,” Gov. Patrick said Thursday at a special joint session of the legislature. The governor's office said the plan is part of a 10-year, $1 billion investment package designed to enhance the commonwealth’s assets in medicine and science and to fill gaps in federal funding to strengthen its capacity to support life science progress through the production and commercialization stages. The legislation, which was outlined during a speech at the BIO 2007 convention in May, inclu... Digital Pathology Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=850666 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:32:00 +0100 850666 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=828535&cid=t_290510_155_f&fid=35947&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftissuepathology.typepad.com%2Fweblog%2F2007%2F08%2Ffda-nanotech-ro.html The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should consider developing guidance and taking other steps to address the benefits and risks of drugs and medical devices using nanotechnology, according to a report released by the FDA Nanotechnology Task Force on July 25. Nanoscale materials could potentially be used in most product types regulated by the FDA, and those materials present challenges similar to those posed by products using other emerging technologies, according to the report. "The challenges, however, may be complicated by the fact that properties relevant to product safety and effectiveness may change as size varies within the nanoscale," the FDA said in a statement. The task force also said the emerging and uncertain nature of nanotechnology and the potentially rapid... Digital Pathology Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=828535 Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:29:00 +0100 828535