A Blue Wave Means New Challenges and Opportunities
How This Majority Will Actually Behave Democrats will hold at least 54 Senate seats (Alaska is still counting) and a sizeable House majority, but President Trump retains veto power, and the filibuster remains intact. House Democrats have promised a 100-day agenda that starts with lowering the cost of gas, groceries, and other goods, reversing cuts […]
Italy Is on the Right Path: Incentives, Not Rent Caps
Italy is on the right path. Faced with high rents and too few homes on the market, Rome has chosen to treat the problem as what it is: a supply shortage. Instead of the caps and bans that have failed from Berlin to San Francisco, the government is using financial incentives to make renting to […]
Autonomous Vehicles Are Putting More Money In Drivers’ Pockets
As autonomous vehicles (AVs) have become more common across the United States, the predictions about their impact on human drivers have mostly been dire: human rideshare drivers would see paychecks evaporate (so critics have said). The claim has been that AV companies like Waymo would undercut drivers, then Uber and Lyft would squeeze their pay-per-trip, […]
Day 2 Recap: The Governance Roots of the US Healthcare Crisis
The second day of the symposium highlighted how top-down healthcare interventions are often blind to what individual patients, physicians, or hospitals need, discussed the nuances between healthcare systems in different countries, and ultimately championed market-based models and competition as the solutions to the governance crisis. Knowledge all the way down A recurrent theme on the […]
Day 1 Recap: The Governance Roots of the US Healthcare Crisis
The United States spends more on healthcare than any other country, yet Americans still face some of the highest prices in the world, narrow choices and uneven quality. The usual debate treats this as a question of money: who pays, and how much. At the Consumer Choice Center, we have long argued that it is […]
Explainer: Prediction Markets Are Not “Just Gambling”
Prediction markets are making major headlines, and one question keeps coming up: Isn’t this just gambling? A prediction contract and a sportsbook wager can hinge on the same outcome (who wins the game), but the platforms behind them have different business models, incentives, and regulatory frameworks. Those differences matter when deciding how to protect consumers […]
Hungarian think tank holds a mirror up to circular lobbying in Europe
Back in April 2026, my colleague David Clement and I released a report on the practice of circular lobbying in Canada, or the practice of the government paying to lobby itself. Circular lobbying is an undemocratic practice where the government gives money to a supposedly “non-governmental” organization which then uses it to lobby the same […]
A CMS Rule That Could Steal Your Precious Resource
Before I was twelve years old, I already knew what chemotherapy was. My mother had cancer, and she was raising me alone. Every session she booked meant finding someone who could take me in for the afternoon, as a single infusion for blood cancer could stretch to seven hours in the chair due to the […]
Why A Federal Judge Sided With Kalshi In A Prediction Market Case
A federal judge in Illinois ruled on October 2nd that the state cannot apply its sports-wagering licensing requirements, or the criminal penalties attached to them, to event contracts listed on Kalshi. The decision is a clear win for consumers who use prediction markets and for the principled argument that federally regulated products should be governed […]
Baptists and Bootleggers and the Fall of Harm Reduction in Canada
A recent article has revealed that Canada’s Health Minister Marjorie Michel is not considering changing the rules that restrict the sale of nicotine pouches in Canada. I would say this is disappointing, but at this point, it’s actually just irresponsible. I hope the Minister’s officials have shown her the stats: Sweden is the world’s first […]
“Let Them Eat Healthy”: Why the war on Ultra-Processed Foods is a War on the Poor
In a past blog, I wrote about the deep lack of information that governments have about ultra-processed foods (UPF), which does not stop them from pursuing an agenda to enact policies on UPFs anyway. As I mentioned before, experts can’t decide on one clear definition of what a UPF actually is. Research has found that […]
Consumer Choice Center Comments on Cassidy’s 340B Reform Draft: Put Drug Discounts Directly in Patients’ Hands
The Consumer Choice Center appreciates the chance to comment on Chairman Cassidy’s 340B discussion draft. CCC is a nonpartisan consumer advocacy group. We work on policies that lower the prices consumers actually pay. We filed 340B comments with the Senate Finance Committee Minority Staff on August 17. Our position has not changed. There is a […]