Unhealthy regulations.

• Author: Sanchez, Julian
• Position: Data - Brief Article

Many Americans see government regulation as the only way to ensure high-quality health care and broad access to medical services. It's easy to forget that an excessive regulatory burden can also cost lives by pricing people out of the health care market. According to a recent Cato Institute study by Christopher J. Conover of Duke University, health regulations in the U.S. neglect that vital injunction: "First, do no harm."

In every area Conover analyzed, he found the costs of...