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A six-part Reason magazine podcast series about the frustrating and foolish aspects of American trade policy that make everyday items more expensive. From last year's sudden shortages of baby formula to the Jones Act and President Lyndon Johnson's infamous "Chicken War," host Eric Boehm sits down with industry experts and libertarian policy wonks to explore how these counterproductive rules got made – and explain why they can be so difficult to undo.
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How restrictions on telemedicine are forcing doctors to choose between following the law and obeying their ethical obligations.
Also: Could legalizing the sale of kidneys and other organs save lives?
Part Two: How Certificate of Need laws limit access to health care, and why those rules can be so difficult to dislodge.
Too often, it's government bureaucrats acting under the influence of special interests and against the wishes of doctors and patients, with sometimes tragic results.
1Cuban's Cost Plus Drugs project brings a bit of free market flair to the health care industry, but the lack of meaningful price signals is only part of the problem.
A new season brings six new stories about how the government is making Americans poorer and sicker.
"There's nobody that says, wait, is this good for America? Is this good for the American consumer?"
"It's not easy to make one of these rules, but it's a thousand times harder to get rid of one."
"You need an argument for why this is good for society. That's important, but you also need money."
"It's just a very classic case of everything wrong with Washington."
The U.S. tariff code is "quite regressive and somewhat misogynist" because the most powerful lobbyist in Washington is muscle memory.
A combination of "absurdly high" federal tariffs and excessive FDA regulations created the conditions for a crisis.
A six-part podcast series on trade policy launching next week
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