That's the topic of Moral Commitments in Cost-Benefit Analysis by law profs Eric Posner and Cass Sunstein. Here is the abstract: The regulatory state has become a cost-benefit state, in the sense that under prevailing executive orders, agencies must catalogue the costs and benefits of regulations before issuing them, and in general, must show that their benefits […]
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That's the name of this article by Danielle Douglas-Gabriel. Some background: In mid-2015, the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that student-loan guaranty agencies may not assess collection costs against borrowers who enter the federal government’s loan rehabilitation program within 60 days of defaulting on their loans. One of the two judges in the Seventh Circuit […]
That's the name of this opinion piece by Steven Schooner & Alan Morrison, two of the lawyers for the Cork Wine Bar in its unfair competition suit against Trump and his new hotel in D.C. (Subscription possibly required.) For more information about the suit, go to our original post about the suit. Here is an excerpt from […]
This article by Deirdre Fernandez explains why, according to the insurance industry, car insurance rates are on the rise: "Drivers distracted by their smartphones are crashing their cars more often, and those cars are now more expensive to repair because they’re loaded with sensors and devices." Some excerpts: TrueMotion is a Boston company that makes an […]
That is the name of this essay by consumer columnist Michelle Singletary. Here is an excerpt: When my siblings and I went to live with my grandmother, we were a sickly bunch. There were five of us. … I was 4. .. We were all undernourished. My brother Mitchell had seizures almost every night. He would lose […]
This article by Liz Goodwin includes both republican and democratic reactions to the Congressional Budget Office's analysis of the Republican bill to "repeal and replace" the Affordable Care Act — that's the analysis that says millions upon millions of Americans will lose their health insurance under the bill. Goodwin's article also reminds us that the repeal […]
Read Trump’s Backing a Healthcare Plan That Breaks His Promises by Benjy Sarlin, which explains point by point how the bill, now backed by Trump, is at odds with Trump's campaign pledges. (No matter, that was before Trump discovered that "no one knew" how complicated health care was.) And for more on the 24 million Americans likely […]
This Congressional Budget Office cost estimate of the republicans' proposed repeal-and-replace of the Affordable Care Act — the health care "reform" law championed by Speaker Paul Ryan — finds that 14 million people will lose their health insurance in the year following enactment. Another 10 million people will lose their health insurance by 2026. Read this article by Dan […]
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