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| Title | Pub. Date | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Why We Can't Have Nice Things: The War on Drugs | 10 Oct 2024 | 00:33:22 | |
How the FDA and DEA overrule the interests of doctors and patients. | |||
| Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Dial 'T' for Terrible Telehealth Laws | 03 Oct 2024 | 00:32:21 | |
How restrictions on telemedicine are forcing doctors to choose between following the law and obeying their ethical obligations. | |||
| Why We Can't Have Nice Things: The Case of the 17,000 Missing Kidneys | 26 Sep 2024 | 00:39:46 | |
Also: Could legalizing the sale of kidneys and other organs save lives? | |||
| Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Permission Slips for Innovation | 19 Sep 2024 | 00:31:08 | |
Part Two: How Certificate of Need laws limit access to health care, and why those rules can be so difficult to dislodge. | |||
| Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Who Decides What Health Care Is 'Needed'? | 12 Sep 2024 | 00:31:32 | |
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. | |||
| Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Can Mark Cuban Make Prescriptions Affordable Again? | 05 Sep 2024 | 00:53:59 | |
Cuban'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. | |||
| Trailer: Why We Can't Have Nice Things Season 2 | 30 Aug 2024 | 00:02:05 | |
A new season brings six new stories about how the government is making Americans poorer and sicker. | |||
| Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Can You Afford Tariffs on Tin Cans? | 07 Sep 2023 | 00:23:43 | |
"There's nobody that says, wait, is this good for America? Is this good for the American consumer?" | |||
| Why We Can't Have Nice Things: The 'Chicken Tax' That Makes Pickup Trucks More Expensive | 31 Aug 2023 | 00:24:24 | |
"It's not easy to make one of these rules, but it's a thousand times harder to get rid of one." | |||
| Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Bootleggers, Baptists, and Ballots | 24 Aug 2023 | 00:25:53 | |
"You need an argument for why this is good for society. That's important, but you also need money." | |||
| Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Jones Act Traffic Jam | 17 Aug 2023 | 00:26:36 | |
"It's just a very classic case of everything wrong with Washington." | |||
| Why We Can't Have Nice Things: The Ghosts of Protectionism Past | 10 Aug 2023 | 00:23:27 | |
The U.S. tariff code is "quite regressive and somewhat misogynist" because the most powerful lobbyist in Washington is muscle memory. | |||
| Why We Can't Have Nice Things: The Great Baby Formula Shortage of 2022 | 03 Aug 2023 | 00:21:47 | |
A combination of "absurdly high" federal tariffs and excessive FDA regulations created the conditions for a crisis. | |||
| Trailer: Why We Can't Have Nice Things Season 1 | 28 Jul 2023 | 00:01:37 | |
A six-part podcast series on trade policy launching next week | |||
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