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Policy Briefs:
Opeds:
- Commentary: Flatting the curve is painful. Let's raise the bar for the next pandemic (May 5, 2020)
- Little-Known State Laws Are Hurting Patients and Making Hospitals Worse (October 3, 2016)
- Certificate-of-Need Laws and Michigan: Rural Health Care, Medical Imaging, and Access (May 18, 2016)
- Rural Virginians Pay Steep Price for Failing Policy (March 3, 2016)
- Certifiably Needless Health-Care Meddling (January 11, 2016)
- Certifiably Needless Health-Care Meddling: Certificate-of-need programs restrict competition and reduce patients' access to care (January 11, 2016) in The Wall Street Journal
- Presidents' Politicized Funding Priorities ( February 19, 2015) in Real Clear Policy
- Laws are Restricting Access to Health Care (October 19, 2014) Guam Pacific Daily News
- CON Laws Limit Patients' Access to Life-Saving Exams (October 16, 2014) National Center for Policy Analysis
- Health Care Cartels Limit American's Options: Column (October 14, 2014) USA Today
- Back to School on Sales Tax Holidays (September 2, 2014) US News and World Report
- Study: Sales Tax Exemptions Spur Tax Hikes (August 28, 2014) Human Events
Sample of Thomas Stratmann Referenced in the News:
- Guest Opinion: Eliminating Certificate of Need laws would improve health care (December 9, 2020) in Bandon Western World
- Evidence Continues to Mount Against the Efficacy of CON Laws (December 6, 2020) in The Maine Wire
- South Carolina Certificate of Need Laws Limit Access to Care for Rural Residents (November 6, 2020) in edState
- Covid-19 Exposes Health-Care Laws That Kill Competition (October 9, 2020) in Bloomberg Law
- Obama's Disastrous Dodd-Frank Does Decade of Damage (October 8, 2020) in Newsmax
- Report: States that suspended Certificate of Need laws saved lives (September 14, 2020) in The Center Square
- Why Would States Limit Hospital-Bed Supply? (August 20, 2020) in The Wall Street Journal
- States that suspended Certificate of Need laws saved lives (August 19, 2020) in Hawaii Free Press
- Mercatus Center Wins 2020 North American Liberty Award for Work on Certificate-of-Need Requirements (July 30, 2020) in Atlas Newark
- The HEROES Act Should Not Be Back Door for Price Controls (May 20, 2020) in Townhall Magazine
- COVID-19 Prompts States to Suspend Regulations That Have Limited Expansion of Health Care Facilities (April 14, 2020) in Reason
- Minnesota has law restricting hospital beds and expert says law is impacting its fight on COVID-19 (April 10, 2020) in Valley News
- COVID-19 highlights need to lessen restrictions on rural medical care (April 7, 2020) in Yellow Hammer
- Vermont Goes to war Against COVID-19 (April 4, 2020) in Vermont Journal
- Opinion: Time to end Missouri's CON (April 1, 2020) in The Missouri Times
- Vermont goes to war against COVID-19 (April 1, 2020) in The Mountain Times
- Severe coronavirus cases on pace to overwhelm ICU availability in urban and rural areas (April 1, 2020) in KPLC-TV Online
- Pandemic reveals a real CON job (March 31, 2020) in The Anderson News
- It's Not Feds' Fault New York Needs More Ventilators, It's Andrew Cuomo's (March 30, 2020) in The Federalist
- It Shouldn't Take A Crisis Like Wuhan Virus To Deregulate Health Care (March 23, 2020) in The Federalist
- Letter to the Editor: Medical CON Job (March 21, 2020) in The Hanford Sentinel
- America's hospitals are unprepared for coronavirus — here's why you should blame government (March 21, 2020) in The Hill
- America Doesn't Have Enough Hospital Beds To Fight the Coronavirus. Protectionist Health Care Regulations Are One Reason Why. (March 13, 2020) in Reason
- Michigan Senate clears Certificate of Need changes (February 28, 2020) in The Center Square
- Mechanicsville hospital seeks permission to expand (February 21, 2020) in WTVR-TV Online
- The Left’s Search for the ‘Right’ Cash (February 14, 2020) in U.S. News & World Report
- American health care needs more competition, not less, to bring down prices (February 1, 2020) in The Tennessean
- If We Want More Rural Hospitals and More Affordable Healthcare, We Should Scrap CON Laws (January 30, 2020) in Mogee Courier
- Michigan Lawmakers Overturn a Bad Regulation Restricting Access to Cancer Treatments (November 18, 2019) in Reason
- State 'certificate of need' laws need to go (October 26, 2019) in The Hill
- Michigan Health Care Regulators Just Restricted Access to Promising New Cancer Treatments (September 20, 2019) in Reason
- Obamacare Drives Hospital Consolidation, Raising Prices For Patients (September 16, 2019) in Forbes
- Misinformation and the Ongoing Healthcare Debate in Virginia (August 21, 2019) in Bearing Drift
- Tallahassee Bill 21 fuels speculation about future growth of hospitals (May 30, 2019) in Miami's Community Newspapers
- Florida's Health Care Deregulation Is a Win for Doctors, Patients, and Free Markets (May 3, 2019) in Reason
- JC Hernandez & Michael Monrroy: Breaking down barriers to success (March 28, 2019) in The Virginian-Pilot
- Lawmakers Need to Say 'Fuggedaboutit' to Costly Taxes and Regs (March 26, 2019) in Inside Sources
- The Progressive Zombification Of Europe's Banks (March 9, 2019) in Zero Hedge
- Lawmakers look to curtail, ditch CON system (February 19, 2019) in Nashville Post
- Billionaires Flooded Republicans' Coffers Just Before the Tax Cuts Passed (February 7, 2019) in Mother Jones
- States should take on corporate cronyism, starting with the hospital industry (February 1, 2019) in The Hill
- You've probably never heard of anti-competitive 'certificate of need' laws but they're harming your health care (January 30, 2019) in FOX News Channel Online
- The story behind the certificate of need: What it is, why it exists, and why it has been a thorn in Virginia's side for decades (January 8, 2019) in The Virginia Mercury
- Blame Government Regulations for America's Uninsured Problem (December 24, 2018) in Forbes
- Patients Suffer When States Limit Health-Care Choices (December 7, 2018) in The Hill
- 1 safety problem, 2 laws, 3 enforcement strategies (November 5, 2018) in News Leader
- Iowa Eye Surgeon Wants to Open His Own Clinic. For 14 Years, His Competitors Have Stopped Him (September 7, 2018) in Hit & Run
- Less fines and more accidents on Florida roads (August 3, 2018) in Sun Sentinel
- Celebrate National Hospital Week by Removing These Destructive Regulations (May 10, 2018) in Townhall Magazine
- Iowa families, farmers and businesses benefit from Dodd-Frank reform (March 22 2018) in Des Moines Register
- Trump Officially Kills Off Dodd-Frank Regulations For Banks (KRE)
(March 20, 2018) in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
- With Rollback, Dodd-Frank Is Now Officially A Dud
(March 19, 2018) in Forbes
- Virginia House Approves Limited Regulatory Reforms for Hospitals, Mental Health Clinics (February 7, 2018) in Hit & Run
- JC Hernandez column: To improve health care, Virginia has better options than expanding Medicaid (January 27, 2018) in Richmond Times-Dispatch
- Thanksgiving notes, the cost of rationed care, mysterious space object discovered from Hawaii (December 7, 2017) in Pacific Business News
- Barriers to Entry in the Healthcare Markets: Winners and Losers from Certificate-of-Need Laws (November 8, 2017) in Environmental Law Professors
- Hawaii Doesn’t Need ‘Certificate of Need’ Laws (November 8, 2017) in Hawaii Free Press
- When government oversight just means more money for politicians (September 3, 2017) in New York Post
- Our view: NJ should consider ending its restraints on health care (August 4, 2017) in The Press of Atlantic City
- Why Omega Healthcare Investors Inc (OHI) Stock Is Worth the Risk (July 19, 2017) in InvestorPlace
- Georgia's Health Care Regulations Limit Access to Women's Health (June 26, 2017) in Hit & Run
- Vermont relies on property and personal income taxes (June 23, 2017) in Vermont Business Magazine
- Repeal Certificate of Need so patients have better access to health care (June 16, 2017) in Carolina Journal
- Iowa Eye Doctor Sues State Over Cronyist Rule That's Kept Him Out of Business Since 2004 (June 14, 2017) in Hit & Run
- A Regulation That Protects Big-Hospital Monopolies (June 13, 2017) in The Wall Street Journal
- Dodd-Frank Battle May Not Help America's Favorite Banks (June 7, 2017) in CBS News Online
- FACT CHECK: Have Small Banks Struggled Under Dodd-Frank? (June 7, 2017) in The Daily Caller
- NC hospitals fight legislative effort to open up health care market to competitors (May 19, 2017) in The News & Observer
- NC hospital executives speak out after CON repeal bill passes state Senate: 5 things to know (May 15, 2017) in Becker's ASC Review
- Reform certificate of public need laws now (May 7, 2017) in The Virginian-Pilot
- Jimmy Kimmel, Sick Babies, and the Forgotten Barrier to Medical Care (May 5, 2017) in Hit & Run
- Does Money Buy Votes? Most Americans Say Yes; A New Study Says They're Right (May 2, 2017) in International Business Times
- A Baby Dies in Virginia (April 2, 2017) in Reason
- Back to the Drawing Board on Health Care (March 27, 2017) in City Journal
- Small Illinois banks looking for relief from Dodd-Frank (March 24, 2017) in Chicago Business Journal
- West Virginia's CON con (March 10, 2017) in Townhall Magazine
- How To Join The P2P Lending Revolution And Earn +10% Yields (March 6, 2017) in Forbes
- Gov. Terry Branstad Pushed Certificate of Need Reform; Iowa Hospitals Killed It (March 3, 2017) in Hit & Run
- Determining Georgia's health care needs (February 25, 2017) in The Newman Times-Herald
- How Two Florida Hospitals Used the Power of the State to Stop Another From Being Built (February 17, 2017) in Hit & Run
- Virginia's Hospital Licensing Reform Effort ‘Dead For This Year' (February 8, 2017) in Hit & Run
- North Carolina Hospital Wants State to Block Competition from Two New Surgical Centers (January 27, 2017) in Hit & Run
- How Virginia's Hospital Licensing Laws Led to an Infant's Death (January 25, 2017) in Reason
- 911 Emergency Response System Significantly Reduced U.S. Murder Rate, Says Study (January 11, 2017) in Hit & Run
- Jeffersoniad Gets COPN and Health Care Completely Backwards (January 10, 2017) in Bearing Drift
- Mercatus report: Health care in West Virginia has room for improvement (December 22, 2016) in The West Virginia Record
- Even Barney Frank Wants To Reform Dodd-Frank. The Trump Administration Should Make It Happen (December 15, 2016) in Independent Journal Review
- David S. D'Amato - The Importance of Free-Market Banking Reforms (December 13, 2016) in Townhall Magazine
- General Assembly to revisit Certificate of Need debate (December 2, 2016) in Atlanta Business Chronicle
- NC's hyper-regulated health care (November 8, 2016) in The Daily Haymaker
- How to unlock the wealth of American nations (November 5, 2016) in Newsweek
- Are you tired of being CONned? (October18, 2016) in The West Virginia Record
- West Virginia's certificate of need laws need repealed, expert says (October 15, 2016) in The West Virginia Record
- Vermont has Most Certificate of Need Laws of any State (October 10, 2016) in Vermont Business Magazine
- Study: States with Certificate of Need Have Higher Death Rates (October 6, 2016) in Carolina Journal
- Tennessee’s Certificate of Need Laws Endanger Lives, New Report Says (October 6, 2016) in Tennessee Watchman
- Study: CON's hurt health (October 6, 2016) in The Robesonian
- Community banks endangered by Dodd-Frank reform (October 4, 2016) in Enid News and Eagle
- Health Care Is Important Regardless Of Party; Boosting Obamacare Competition (October 4, 2016) in Kaiser Health News
- Do CON laws erode quality of care? (September 30, 2016) in FierceHealthcare
- Deal or shutdown? Congress continues to teeter (September 28, 2016) in POLITICO
- Certificate-of-need laws lower quality of care, study finds (September 28, 2016) in Modern Healthcare
- Editorial - Another reason to spike COPN (September 27, 2016) in Richmond Times-Dispatch
- Sales tax takes the spotlight as Legislature explores new revenue options (September 3, 2016) in Casper Star-Tribune
- Coomes to head state Office of Health Policy (August 24, 2016) in Messenger-Inquirer
- Inova fumbled its Redskins training facility naming rights deal (August 12, 2016) in The Washington Post
- White House Says Dodd-Frank Not to Blame for Decrease in Community Banks (August 10, 2016) in The Wall Street Journal
- Here's how to take on our mental health crisis (August 4, 2016) in Las Vegas Sun
- COMMENTARY: 3 ways to address mental health (July 27, 2016) in Daily Journal
- How Congress, States Should Tackle America's Mental Health Crisis (July 20, 2016) in Inside Sources
- Disappointed By the Democratic Party Platform? Follow the Money. (July 18, 2016) in These Times
- Medical Cronyism (July 1, 2016) in Reason
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy | Brennan Center for Justice (June 25, 2016) in Brennan Center for Justice
- Ill effects of limiting hospital competition (June 8, 2016) in The East County Observer
- End these regulations to ease mental health crisis (June 6, 2016) in The Gazette
- How to Help Cure U.S. Mental Health Crisis: End These Health Care Regulations (June 3, 2016) in InsideSources
- Three Reforms to Bring Down Michigan Health Care Costs (May 24, 2016) in FREE REPUBLIC
- Three Reforms to Bring Down Michigan Health Care Costs (May 18, 2016) in Michigan Capital Confidential
- North Carolina's CON Law Key Culprit Behind High Healthcare Costs (May 18, 2016) in MyBusiness Magazine
- In Illinois and elsewhere, do state rules drive suicide rates? (May 2, 2016) in Chicago Tribune
- How to slow Michigan's skyrocketing suicide rate (May 1, 2016) in The Detroit News
- Certificate of Need Law in Need of Reform (April 14, 2016) in Knoxville.com
- Cooper: Certificate of Need Reform Needed (April 12, 2016) in Chattanooga Times Free Press Online
- Voter suppression is recipe for income inequality (April 10, 2016) in Austin American-Statesman
- How to reduce Missouri's high suicide rate: Cut government regulations (March 31, 2016) in St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Letters to the Editor, March 31 (March 30, 2016) in Herald-Sun
- These Government Regulations Could Contribute to Higher Suicide Rates (March 29, 2016) in Townhall
- No medical licensing reform in Virginia this year (March 25, 2016) in Virginia Watchdog
- Senator Gardenhire Seeks To Remove Certificate Of Need Process For Several Types Of Medical Facilities (March 21, 2016) in The Chattanoogan
- Give Rural Residents More Healthcare Choices (March 21, 2016) in Flathead Beacon
- Congressman Invokes Kanye, Bono in Call for Dodd-Frank Repeal (March 15, 2016) in U.S. News & World Report
- Koopman and Stratman: Rural Virginians Pay Steep Price for Failing Policy (March 6, 2016) in The Roanoke Times Online
- KPMG: Blockchain Could Be 'Antidote' to High Cost of Regulation – CoinDesk (March 4, 2016) in Coin Desk
- Rural Virginia Suffers From Medical Facility Licensing Scheme (February 19, 2016) in My Informs
- Entry Regulation and Rural Health Care: Certificate-of-Need Laws, Ambulatory Surgical Centers, and Community (February 18, 2016) in The Insider
- High stakes for health care industry in overhaul debate (February 16, 2016) in The Tennessean
- Certificate of need laws hurt both competition and patients (February 11, 2016) in New Hampshire Union Leader
- The great money-in-politics myth (February 9, 2016) in Vox
- Florida's next needed health care reform (February 8, 2016) in Naples Daily News
- New York can improve health care by repealing certificate-of-need laws (in The Buffalo News
- Nathan Nascimento: West Virginia's next health care reform opportunity (February 3, 2016) in Sunday Gazette-Mail
- Times-Dispatch Editors Call for COPN Reform (February 3, 2016) in Bearing Drift Virginia Politics on Demand
- CON Law Restricts Patient Access to Critical Health Care Services (February 2, 2016) in FREE REPUBLIC
- Certificate of Need Reform Focuses on Free Market (January 27, 2016) in The Tennessean – Online
- Guest Column: Tennessee's Next Health Care Reform (January 24, 2016 ) in Commercial Appeal Online
- Haskins: Virginia legislators aim to roll back health care regulations, but more needs to be done (January 24, 2016) in The Roanoke Times
- Research Suggests CON Laws Limit Health Care (January 20, 2016) in Daily New Online
- Beyond Medicaid: health care for low-income Georgians (January 20, 2016) in Columbia County News Times
- Obama shoots for the moon, ignores health care on Earth (January 13, 2016) in POLITICO
- Florida's health facility growth laws push patients away, study says (January 13, 2016) in The Jacksonville Business Journal
- Is Obama A ‘Transformational President'?; The Burden Of Medical Debt (January 12, 2016) in Kaiser Health News
- Certifiably Needless Health-Care Meddling (January 11, 2016) in The Wall Street Journal Online
- Certificate of Need: State Health Laws and Programs (January 8, 2016) in American Hospital Association Resource Center Blog
- Virginian-Pilot starts off 2016 by botching the COPN issue (January 5, 2016) in Bearing Drift Virginia Politics On
- COPN: Panel Discussion (November 2, 2015) in Virginia Capitol News Network
- Christopher Koopman: Certificate-of-need laws limit health care options (September 5, 2015) in The Fayetteville Observer Online
- Our say: Do we need a system to ration heart surgery? (August 16, 2015) in The Capital Gazette
- Meet the Defense Industry's Favorite Committee (July 15, 2015) in POLITICO Online
- Certificate of Need by Michael Thompson: Reform for Better Health Care (July 11, 2015) in Richmond Times-Dispatch
- The most ridiculous health care law: Certificate of Need (April 29, 2015) in Watchdog.org
- Hospitals to fight bill that would open NC medical market (April 16, 2015) in Charlotte Observer - Online
- Editorial: Certificate of Public Need process needs repealing (April 9, 2015) in Richmond Times-Dispatch
- Laws may be limiting medical care in Georgia (April 4, 2015) in Times-Herald - Online
- Removing state-based obstacles to affordable healthcare (March 19, 2015) in The Hill
- Clear Opportunity for Health Care Reform (March 19, 2015) in Carolina Journal Online
- The Health Care CON in North Carolina (March 6, 2015) in News & Observer Online/NewsObserver.com
- States Strike a Blow for Freedom in the ObamaCare Age (February 20, 2015) in The Wall Street Journal
- Presidents' Politicized Funding Priorities (February 19, 2015) in Real Clear Policy
- How Are Small Banks Faring under Dodd-Frank? (February 18, 2015) in Cato Journal – Online
- Does the CFPB Know What’s in Your Wallet? (February 10, 2015) in Economic Intelligence; US News
- Certificate-of-Need Laws Mean Fewer Services for Patients (February 5, 2015) in National Center for Policy Analysis
- CON Laws Limit Patients’ Access to Life-Saving Exams (October 16, 2014) in National Center for Policy Analysis
- The CON of Certificate of Need Laws (July 22, 2014) in National Center for Policy Analysis
- Certificate-of-Need Laws Raise Costs, Reduce Services (July 21, 2014) in National Center for Policy Analysis
- Increasing the Effectiveness of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection in Protecting Consumers (May 21, 2014) Mercatus Center, Testimony Before the Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Subcommittee of the House Committee on Financial Services
- Federal Consumer Bureau Data-Mining Hundreds of Millions of Consumer Credit Card Accounts, Mortgages (January 29, 2014) in Washington Examiner
- State Sales Taxes and Exemptions (January 15, 2014) in National Center for Policy Analysis
- Traffic Tickets, ‘Broke’ Towns and Road Safety (June 5, 2012) Wall Street Journal
- New Hampshire Per-capita Excise Taxes Among Nation’s Highest (June 23, 2011) The New Hampshire Business Review
- Report: Nevada Among States Collecting Most Excise Tax Revenue (June 23, 2011) FOX Reno
- Senate Republicans Adopt Voluntary Earmark Ban (November 16, 2010) Reuters
- Political Campaign Advertising Budgets (November 2, 2010) Nightly Business Report
- It’s Not Your Imagination. Recessions Do Lead to More Traffic Tickets (August 19, 2010) Forbes.com
- Earmarked for Success (April 15, 2010) The Daily Caller
- Buying Popularity (April 3, 2010) The Washington Times
- Taking Responsibility for Earmarks (March 11, 2010) Politico
- Editorial: Health Care Run by Trial Lawyers (August 27, 2009) Washington Times