An effective approach to reforming the health care system begins by addressing the incentives driving theunsustainable rise in health care expenditures. Reforms based on President Obama’s priorities fail to do this. Rather than expanding the role of government in the health care market, Congress should implement a patient-centered approach to health care reform.
Student-Athletes Are Not Employees
College athletics is approaching a crossroads. After years of rapid, sweeping change in student-athlete compensation practices that have left a patchwork of state regulation in its wake, some in Congress now propose to reclassify collegiate student‑athletes across the country as employees of their universities. While we sympathize with the desire to provide certainty and uniformity to student-athletes and universities, and although we see the need for some revenue-sharing framework, workplace regulation...